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

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.

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

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

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

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