Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be..

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….

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….

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….

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

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

Play is where life lives.

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….

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….

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….

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

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..

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….