American Quote by Steve Prefontaine

I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running…

— Arthur Lydiard

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the…

— Christen Press

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things…

— David Duval

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the…

— Bernd Heinrich

That's the neat thing about the Olympics - so many of these athletes, they don't make a ton of money, they train for four…

— Julie Foudy

When athletes are obsessed with whatever identity niche they've backed themselves into at the expense of showcasing America, everybody suffers. They forget to focus…

— Miranda Devine

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.

— Colton Underwood

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

— Bill Rodgers

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but…

— Christen Press

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

— Hima Das

When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much…

— Billie Jean King

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who…

— Haile Gebrselassie