The marathon is like a bullfight.

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Begin to think of how you could maximize the time you have through hard work and through concentration.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.