My goal is to break three hours in a marathon

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.

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Yes, you are a battery.

There is only one limitation to our progress and that is our lack of information.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

I have three-putted in 40 countries.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.