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

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

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

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.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.