Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

I have found my hero and he is me.

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.

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.