We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

We are much better than we know.