“If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.”

“Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.”

“Train, don't strain.”

“Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.”

“It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic”

“Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within”

“When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.”

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, wou...”

“The thoughts that occur to me while Im running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guest...”

“Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all.”

“When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.”