You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

If I faltered, there would be no arms to hold me and the world would be a cold and forbidding place.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

The mile has all the elements of a drama.