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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

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

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

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

I've played everything but the harp.

I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there.