Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.

a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after, be a kinder person because of it...

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

The pride never leads, never submits, and never leaves.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.