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

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.

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

There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed.Expect everything - or expect nothing.

In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.

Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

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