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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

If I have to run to put myself in the hospital, if I have to run that hard, that's how hard I'll have to run.

If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I used to train with my husband, Anthony Maina, but he is now too busy as a helicopter pilot, so we only run together when I do light jogging. I don't want to kill him before his next flight!