Again, racing for me was about energy management.

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.

Peace begins when expectations end.

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.

Often change yourself, when you see that people envy you : they will start to change themselves too, but at that time YOU will not envy them...

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.

Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.