The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

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.

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.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.