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.

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.

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

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

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