Anybody can train when he's psyched up, but it's the guy who can go out and force himself to run when he doesn't feel like it who is going to eventually succeed.

This is where I feel sports supersede all other ventures and why I feel sports are something special. You may spend thirty years trying to prove you're the best writer in the business and you may gain that recognition only after a long and unfair struggle, or you may never gain that recognition since you are quiet and do not publicize yourself. But in running no one can deny you; you train, you receive your opportunity, you achieve and you are immediately granted your reward.