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- The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
- The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.
- Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.
- To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it,…
- Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.
- We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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