You cannot always run at your best.

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.