Sport is an essential element of education.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

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.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

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.