Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.