Mark Parker Quotes

I can run a long distance very slowly and I do a half marathon every year.

One of my first races came over 10km in 2002. I won that race and it felt great. I would say that is when I first fell in love with running.

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

I've done a few marathons. I've done a 50-mile one and even a 100-mile one.

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever. Now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

I did marathons long before they were popular, when people running round the streets were looked at oddly.