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.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

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.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

Everything you need is already inside.