Every Runner Is An Experiment Of One.

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 And A Saint. So, Too, Are You. Find Your Own Play, Your Own Self-renewing Compulsion, And You Will Become The Person You Are Meant To Be.

There Is Nothing More Certain Than The Defeat Of The Man Who Gives Up.

The Key Then Is To Find Your Own Mountain, Otherwise You Will Be Competing With People Who Are Not Even In Your Event, And Running Up Against The 'shoulds' And 'oughts' Of That World, And The Inevitable Frustration And Depression And Feelings Of Failure. A Person Can Be Complete Or Incomplete, But One Thing Is Sure, He Cannot Be Someone Else.

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 Is Unchanged: Each Race A Drama, Each Race A Challenge, Each Race Stretching Me In One Way Or Another, And Each Race Telling Me More About Myself And Others.