There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

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

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

The desire to run comes from deep within us — from the unconscious, the intuitive, the instinctive. And that desire becomes a passion when the runner learns to race. Then, the race becomes all — the lovemaking of the runner.

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.