The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.