Success Means Having The Courage, The Determination,

Sport Is Where An Entire Life Can Be Compressed Into A Few Hours, Where The Emotions Of A Lifetime Can Be Felt On An Acre Or Two Of Ground, Where A Person Can Suffer And Die And Rise Again On Six Miles Of Trails Through A New York City Park. Sport Is A Theater Where Sinner Can Turn Saint And A Common Man Become An Uncommon Hero, Where The Past And The Future Can Fuse With The Present. Sport Is Singularly Able To Give Us Peak Experiences Where We Feel Completely One With The World And Transcend All Conflicts As We Finally Become Our Own Potential.

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.

Life Is A Positive-sum Game. Everyone From The Gold Medallist To The Last Finisher Can Rejoice In A Personal Victory.

The Distance Runner Is Mysteriously Reconciling The Separations Of Body And Mind, Of Pain And Pleasure, Of The Conscious And The Unconscious. He Is Repairing The Rent, And Healing The Wound In His Divided Self. He Has Found A Way To Make The Ordinary Extraordinary; The Commonplace Unique; The Everyday Eternal.

If You Want To Find The Answers To The Big Questions About Your Soul, You'd Best Begin With The Little Answers About Your Body.