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

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now we're heading towards total equality.' Then you see that there are women who are still not allowed to drive, get an education, or travel unless they have a male companion or can't carry their passport. There are those who are mired with incredible poverty in North Africa, the mid-east, South East Asia and there's a ridiculous amount of human trafficking.

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

Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.