You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

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

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

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

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.

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a year. I get more gratification from that than putting a person in the Olympic Games. The Olympic athlete probably doesn't appreciate what you've done, but the other guy does. I think it's really rewarding.