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.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

What broke your heart so badThat you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soulAnd can't utter the word 'love' anymore?

We read to know we are not alone.

Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.