The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

What I want is to be number one.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

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

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.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.