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

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

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.

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

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.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.