Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.