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

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.

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.

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

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 a lot of criticism around you. Don't pay attention to what they say or think...As long as you are gratified for what you do, what do you care what other people think?

Never ask for permission to smile.

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long.

A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

Forests are the lungs of our land.

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Forget what you know about disability.