I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

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

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 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.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.