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

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

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

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

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.