Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.