We train together to make each other great.

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

The journey isn't always perfect, but always worth taking.

After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie.

Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow.

Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

Positive thought is healthy to the soul.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.