Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

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.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

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

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.