The marathon is like a bullfight.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

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

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

The marathon is like a bullfight.

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.