The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.

Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.

When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand, The splash of the water, The glow of the sky, The prayer of man

Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn’t make any difference.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.

The sick are victims of their own imagination.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.