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

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

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.

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

Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.

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

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.