I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.

Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.