I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you.

Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?

They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.