Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Make your life a meaningful one

Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.

Experience should have taught ye by now that denying me what I want only makes me more relentless.

When I kiss you, it will be THE kiss, not just A kiss.

I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.