Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

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

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.