Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

I forgave Jock Semple his action on Boston race just around the time I got to Heartbreak Hill. I had 24 miles to go and you cannot run 24 miles and stay angry. That's the truth. When we go out and we're mad at our boss or mad at the world, when we run, we get it out of our system.

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.