My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

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

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

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

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.