Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

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

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.

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.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

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

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.