Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

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

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

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

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.

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

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.