The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

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

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

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 real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

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

The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.