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

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

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.

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

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.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.