I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!

I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage.

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.