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.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

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

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.

News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.

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