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.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

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

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.