To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Everything you need is already inside.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

If I knew then what I know now, I would still be dreaming BIG today.