81 Quotes by Frank Shorter

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.