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[the] Pain Is Temporary. It May Last A Minute, An Hour, A Day, Or A Year, But Eventually It Subsides. And When It Does, Something Else Takes Its Place, And That Thing Might Be Called A Greater Space For Happiness ... Each Time We Overcome Pain, I Believe That We Grow.

If I Was Racing In 2015, No, I Wouldn't Do It Again Because I Don't Think You Have To. If You Take Me Back To 1995, When Doping Was Completely Pervasive, I Would Probably Do It Again.

I Have Never Had A Single Positive Doping Test, And I Do Not Take Performance-enhancing Drugs.

My Advice To You Is Never Stop Believing.

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.