I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

There is no bad weather, just soft runners.

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.

Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.