Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.
The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines. . . or other new beginnings.
You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.
Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.