Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

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

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

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.