If Marathoners Finish They Win.

Some Think Guts Is Sprinting At The End Of A Race. But Guts Is What Got You There To Begin With. Guts Start Back In The Hills With 6 Miles To Go And You're Thinking Of How You Can Get Out Of This Race Without Anyone Noticing. Guts Begin When You Still Have Forty Minutes Of Torture Left And You're Already Hurting More Than You Ever Remember.

The Key Then Is To Find Your Own Mountain, Otherwise You Will Be Competing With People Who Are Not Even In Your Event, And Running Up Against The 'shoulds' And 'oughts' Of That World, And The Inevitable Frustration And Depression And Feelings Of Failure. A Person Can Be Complete Or Incomplete, But One Thing Is Sure, He Cannot Be Someone Else.

Fitness Has To Be Fun. If It Is Not Play There Will Be No Fitness. Play, You See, Is Where The Process. Fitness Is Merely The Product.

Success Rests With Having The Courage And Endurance And, Above All, The Will To Become The Person You Are, However Peculiar That May Be. Then You Will Be Able To Say, I Found My Hero And He Is Me.

The Most Important Thing I Learned [from Running] Is That There Is Only One Runner In This Race, And That Is Me.