The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.