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I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

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

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

You train best where you are the happiest.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.