When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

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.

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

There is no off position on the genius button.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper.

You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.

If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.