Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

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.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that.

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.