If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.