I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

It’s about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks

Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Free men set themselves free.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.