Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

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.

Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.