If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.