I started running in Junior High School. I was so slow and uncoordinated the coach set me up with a paper route so that instead of going to work out after school I went to the corner of Providence Ave at Crestline St. and picked up a bundle of 15 newspapers.

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.