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

Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

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

I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.

When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.

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.