When we first started running, I was getting calls and letters from people with disabilities that were very upset with me and they said I was just out there looking for glory and dragging my disabled son to all these races. They didn't know that it was him dragging his old man to these races.

Dick Hoyt

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It's very special. When we first started we never knew we would be running marathons, never mind 25 of them.

This is my favorite part of the day, talking to people (before the start). It loosens us up a bit.

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I'm running to serve the citizens of the communities from Bluff City to Kingsport and the areas in between. I have a broad vision of people coming together and working together. When this occurs, the greater sum comes about.

— Hoyt Denton

As soon as they were made aware of it, they changed the number for subsequent letters.

We thought it would be much more customer-friendly to send these types of letters. We were noticing that lots of people applied, but that many of them didn't enroll.

— Dick Robertson