The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

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.

A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.

The Brain is a chewed gum.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.

People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are here to hustle.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.