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

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 frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?