Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

However, Heaven can only show you the way. You must walk the path yourself.

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

brown life is an unbroken bearing of the weight and hollow of the active absence of brown life.

For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.