My goal is to break three hours in a marathon

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

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.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

You train best where you are the happiest.

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.