I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

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.

A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

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