In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

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.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

I also held several masters running titles.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.