I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.
It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.
The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.