The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there is a defense.... The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. Above all, he must have a will to win.