During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

There's no satisfaction without a struggle first.

Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Happy people don't run a 3:47 mile.

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?

A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?