Frank Shorter

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.