"If you run you get it done. If you walk it ain't no fun"
-Coach Triola

"Running, one might say, is an absurd pastime upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning in the kind of running required of you to stay on this team, perhaps you'll find meaning in another absurd pastime: life."
-"Without Limits"

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
-Inspirational sign on a runner's office wall

"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts."
-Steve Prefontaine

"There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open."
-Nike

"It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it."
-Brooks Johnson

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
-Steve Prefontaine

"Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind."
- Bill Clinton

"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."
-Bill Rodgers

"Pre wasn't a runner. He was a rebel who happened to run."
-Nike

"Pre thought I was a hard case. But he finally got it through my head that the real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test to the limits of the human heart. That he did . . . No one did it more often. No one did it better."
-Coach Bill Bowerman
Pre's Memorial Serive, Hayward Field, Eugene Oregon, 1975