Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

There's no satisfaction without a struggle first.

Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast.

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Happy people don't run a 3:47 mile.

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

I have a great deal of concern for any president and the amount of power they accumulate versus congress. I'm a stickler about the idea of separation of powers.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.