Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder.

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.

One of the golden rules of success is to treat everything like a competition.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.