There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

You're a woman, enjoy yourself, and believe that you can do things.

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.