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The Key Then Is To Find Your Own Mountain, Otherwise You Will Be Competing With People Who Are Not Even In Your Event, And Running Up Against The 'shoulds' And 'oughts' Of That World, And The Inevitable Frustration And Depression And Feelings Of Failure. A Person Can Be Complete Or Incomplete, But One Thing Is Sure, He Cannot Be Someone Else.

If You Want To Win Anything - A Race, Yourself, Your Life - You Have To Go A Little Berserk.

No Matter How Old I Get, The Race Remains One Of Life's Most Rewarding Experiences.

The Music Of A Marathon Is A Powerful Strain, One Of Those Tunes Of Glory. It Asks Us To Forsake Pleasures, To Discipline The Body, To Find Courage, To Renew Faith And To Become One's Own Person, Utterly And Completely.

It's Very Hard In The Beginning To Understand That The Whole Idea Is Not To Beat The Other Runners. Eventually You Learn That The Competition Is Against The Little Voice Inside You That Wants You To Quit.