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

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.

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.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

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

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

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.