All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.