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

“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”

“But yeah, Ann [Trason] insisted, running was romantic; and no, of course her friends didn't get it because they'd never broken through. For them, running was a miserable two miles motivated solely by size 6 jeans: get on the scale, get depressed, get your headphones on, and get it over with. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it, like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.”

“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.”

“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”

“Ask nothing from running and you'll get more than you ever imagined”

“Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!”