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

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

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.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

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