The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

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.

If marathoners finish they win.