Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

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

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.

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

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.