The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.

- Herb Elliott

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

- Herb Elliott

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

- Herb Elliott

I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I wo…

- Herb Elliott

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

- Herb Elliott

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits t…

- Herb Elliott

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

- Herb Elliott

Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than ph…

- Herb Elliott

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimul…

- Herb Elliott