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

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

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

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.

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.