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 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

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

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

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

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.

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