My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.