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

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

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

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

This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., your fellow Olympians laid down their arms to take part in these games. They understood there was more honor in out running a man than in killing him. I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.