Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour..

I have found my hero and he is me..

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not..

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the mo….

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be..

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal..

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

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

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant..

The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind a….

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is agai….

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we g….

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race….

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory..

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist….

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a p….

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

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 wil….

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

Play is where life lives.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got..