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.

- Arthur Lydiard

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athlet…

- Arthur Lydiard

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

- Arthur Lydiard

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

- Arthur Lydiard

I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, su…

- Arthur Lydiard

They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with wome…

- Arthur Lydiard

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…

- Arthur Lydiard

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…

- Arthur Lydiard

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 champions. They …

- Arthur Lydiard