Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

If marathoners finish they win.

Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.

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

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.