The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.
So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.
Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion. " I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.