You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

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.

Wise people listen to your words. Learned people listen to their interpretation of your words.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

Don’t you rob yourself of what you’re feeling; don’t rob yourself of all that you could be.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.