Competition Quote by Renato Canova

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

— Emil Zatopek

During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away…

— Marty Liquori

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…

— Arthur Lydiard

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal…

— George A. Sheehan

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does…

— James Weldon Johnson

I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or…

— Allyson Felix

If you don't have good running form, there's only so fast you can go.

— Mary Cain

Based on my experience; I would develop fast speed before anything else. Get your young runners so they can run and teach them speed.

— Gerry Lindgren

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as…

— Lauren Oliver

I want to run as fast as I can.

— Hima Das

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

— Emil Zatopek

Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of…

— Raghuram Rajan