It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves