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A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

In my younger days, I loved to run. Although it may be hard for you to believe it, I did. And I did win a few races.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.

I am a marathon runner. I ran the New York City marathon and almost died. I tried to run, like, a two-minute mile early on in the race. I was crazy enough to think I could win. After seven miles I thought I would die, but I slowed down my pace and kept going.