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.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

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

I have found my hero and he is me.

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

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

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.