To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

Sport is an essential element of education.

Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

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.

Play is where life lives

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