That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection..
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….
My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain..
Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach..
The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians..
The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right..
The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that y….
I don’t want to get too detailed into it, but when you’re a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. ….
One theme that fascinates me is cognitive enhancement. It seems only a matter of time until we live in a world where steroids for the brain are readi….
Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kin….
When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to ….
The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy t….
My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won..
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone..
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. ….
This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D.,….
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to….
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which ….
It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they ….
College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such..
By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be..