Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

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.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

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.