The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

I'll never do that again!

I'm never going to run this again.

My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

I don't think I would have been such a good runner if I hadn't enjoyed it.

Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.