Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

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.

Have you ever felt worse after a run?

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

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.