Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.