"I figure, life is about 'Plan B.'" - David Monti, publisher of Race Results Weekly "Well, we all do what we're good at." - my old boss, when I told him a certain server in our company is doing nothing but sucking up space and electricity. "If you come up with a flawed system, luck will work against you, and your flaws will be exposed." - Actuary Sean Casey, on the Women's Olympic Team Selection Process. "Way to go Lemay. It's about time you got off your ass and did something." - Bob Henes, on my 1999 win in the California International Marathon. "At the 8K mark, I felt this tingle, and I got this feeling." Princeton Sophomore Paul Morrison on his performance at the NCAA XC meet. "The placebo effect is real and documented. If the athlete THINKS the treatment is working, then it IS working." - from the newsletter "Coach" published by the USOC."Because that's all I have time for." - Stu Mittleman, on why he runs 20 miles a day. "When obvious scientific truth opposes our social order, we'd rather not hear it." - John Lienhard "Who doesn't crave, just once in a lifetime crowded with pain, problems, and incompleteness, to shout, Eureka?" - John Lienhard And finally, I used to have a far side cartoon up here where you see a runner, and a pair of scissors with little eyeballs and a little shirt standing on the ground and the runner says to the scissors, "Sorry, Kevin, but my friends have all advised me not to run with you anymore." But then I got a "cease and desist" letter from the publishers of the far side, so it's not here any more. They feel I should try and be funny all on my own, without any help from Gary Larson. So it's gone.
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