“Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.”

“If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.”

“You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run”

“We were born to run; we were born because we run.”

“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”

“Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.”

“We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.”