Marathon training doesn't have to be a grind. By running for about 30 minutes two times a week, and by gradually increasing the length of a third weekly run-the long run-anyone can finish a marathon.

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

The most important force inside you for feeling better all the time is the will to get more fit.

When I finish a run, every part of me is smiling.

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

When love begs hatred & sorrow, show it your heart. For what you sow you reap, what you feel you seek.

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

If you can't Smile for Yourself then Smile for Others

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

We could say politically correct that look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.

‎The past is always an invented land.