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

Play is where life lives

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

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.

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