What I want is to be number one.

What I like most about track is the feeling I get after a good run.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.

I run to see who has the most guts.

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.

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.