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.

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

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

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

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.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.