The Riskiest Thing You Can Do Is

Two Things Scare Me. The First Is Getting Hurt. But That's Not Nearly As Scary As The Second, Which Is Losing.

I Didn't Invent The Culture, But I Didn't Try To Stop The Culture.

If Life Gives You Lemons, Drink The Juice In Order To Mask The Presence Of Performing-enhancing Drugs.

It's Tough To Be A 15- Or 16-year-old Athlete Competing Around The Country. There's Tension, There's Media. I Had No Idea What I Was Getting Into.

What Makes A Great Endurance Athlete Is The Ability To Absorb Potenial Embarrassment, And To Suffer Without Complaint. I Was Discovering That If It Was A Matter Of Gritting My Teeth, Not Caring How It Looked, And Outlasting Everybody Else, I Won. It Didn't Seem To Matter What Sport It Was-in A Straight-ahead, Long-distant Race, I Could Beat Anybody. If It Was A Suffer-fest, I Was Good At It.