The 3-minute mile goal is to teach runners that the impossible is where goals should be set.

There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.

I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.

Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.