Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.