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

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.

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

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

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.