"The greatest lesson I learned was to believe in myself."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted."

"The road to success is always under construction."

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."