Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

There's no satisfaction without a struggle first.

Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Happy people don't run a 3:47 mile.

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can't be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.