I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.