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

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that.

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

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.