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

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

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

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

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

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.