I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

Men, today we die a little.

If I can get better, why not?

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.