Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

The marathon can humble you.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

Get the hell off the Beach in Asbury Park and get out. You're done. It's 4:30 PM. You've maximized your tan. Get off the beach. Get in you cars and get out of those areas.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.