If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

What's your favorite part of me?

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Love is not love if there is no beloved.

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.