Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

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.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

Exercise: you don't have time not to