We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

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

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

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.

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