Quotes from Frank Shorter

I also held several masters running titles.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

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.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

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.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

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.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.