My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'

It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.