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

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

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

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.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

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

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.