If you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.

— Christopher McDougall

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

— Bruce Springsteen

Born to love, Born to lead.Born to shine, Born to succeed.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

— Abe Gubegna

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

— Christopher McDougall

By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it.

— Chistopher McDougall

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

— Joe Vigil