If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.