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.

On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

I have found my hero and he is me.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.