Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.

Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.

Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.

Good leadership isn't about what you say but what you do.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

Would a dating service for people on the net be "frowned upon" by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.