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.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

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

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

If marathoners finish they win.