Ed Caesar > Quotes

“Marathon runners, by default, must have resilient minds.”
― Ed Caesar, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

“In 1923, George Mallory, the dashing alpinist and writer, was asked by a New York Times reporter why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. He famously replied, “Because it’s there.” The rest of his response is less commonly cited, but more instructive:

“Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It’s existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of man’s desire to conquer the universe.”
― Ed Caesar, The Moth and the Mountain

“The way is the goal”
― Ed Caesar, The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest

“Sikkim was gorgeous. This sultry, hilly heaven of the natural world was home to snow leopards, black bears, red pandas, golden eagles, and five hundred types of butterflies.”
― Ed Caesar, The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest

“You think you can be a successful runner from a good family?” It was not really a question. He had talked of his upbringing in Ethiopia: about the poverty that surrounded him, and about the violence meted out to him in his home. Haile’s counterintuitive analysis was that all world-beating runners spring from twisted roots. He believed that a deficit of opportunities, and an early taste of pain, had not stifled his talent but fertilized it.”
― Ed Caesar, Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon