1. “Every runner is an experiment of one.”
2. “The difference between a jogger an a runner is an entry blank.”
3. “Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.”
4. “There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.”
5. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
6. “Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing .”
7. “If you want to win anything – a race, yourself, your life – you have to go a little berserk.”
8. “Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.”
9. “Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.”
10. “Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training and some are not.”
11. “There is no substitute for leaning to live in our bodies.”
12. “Once you have decided that winning isn’t everything, you become a winner.”
13. “Sport is an essential element of education.”
14. “Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.”
15. “No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life’s most rewarding experiences.”
