The marathon is like a bullfight.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

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.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

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

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

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

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.