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Play is where life lives
If marathoners finish they win.
I have found my hero and he is me.
Exercise: you don't have time not to
Every runner is an experiment of one.
Have you ever felt worse after a run?
Sport is an essential element of education.
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.
There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.
The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.
I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.
The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
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.
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
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.
Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.
Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.
Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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 will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.