You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

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.

Daily mediation on the Holy Scriptures is a spiritual act.

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.