Quotes from Frank Shorter

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.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

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.

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

You train best where you are the happiest.

I plan to be running as long as I can and have no plans to stop.

What you did was live on very little. I think all of us that were competing - Bill is the same way - you don't need much to live.

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

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.

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

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

Because running fast is more fun than running slow.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

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.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.