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“Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.”

“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.”

“Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.”

“There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing”

“Good things come slow, especially in distance running.”

“Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.”

“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.”

“I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.”

“A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.”

“It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run. I feel this may be around 3:30 for the mile. However, another paradox remains - if an athlete manages to run 3:30, another runner could be found to marginally improve on that time.”

“The marathon can humble you.”

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves”

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”

“It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.”

“I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.”

“Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.”

“Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”