Athlete Quote by Alberto Salazar

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training…

— Bill Rodgers

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might…

— Roger Bannister

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as…

— Emil Zatopek

Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

— Marty Liquori

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to…

— Kara Goucher

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run

— Shannon Miller

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last…

— Oscar Pistorius

Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve…

— Gerry Lindgren

The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I'm always…

— Shani Davis

After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast…

— Gerry Lindgren

I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not…

— Gerry Lindgren