To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Don’t let fatigue make a coward out of you.
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they’re capable of understanding.
What I want is to be number one.
No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody.
You said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.
You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.