A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.