The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, but to be with each other.
- Christopher McDougall

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 the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. –
- Christopher McDougall

We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
- Christopher McDougall