I still have the same hunger like I did 20 years ago but it's a different sort of reflection when you lose. It doesn't hurt you as much because I feel like I've had a good career.

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again.

Stories are invented as you go along...

Bad and bad and bad and bad move... and move and move just another checkmate...

It's true we're all a little insane.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

Surpass the best to be the best

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.