If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.

Believe in your dreams and that anything is possible.

There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I want to thank GOD for everything he as done for me cause without him none of this wouldn't be possible.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

I know what I can do, so I never doubt myself.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

God, harden me against myself!

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Donald Trump came out as a birther, which is Republican for, 'I'm running for president.'

You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.