With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Of all things, I liked books best.

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

The Beatles will exist without us.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.