If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.