I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile.

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

The man who goes on, even when it's the hardest to be the winner.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.