I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

You create your own masterpiece as your actions draw pictures of your life canvas.

This is why I choose not to have real-life girlfriends. I can’t even pretend without starting a fight.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.