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I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

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Arthur Lydiard

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

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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 sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

Face, Faces, Finn, Mean, Sisu, Track And Field

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 get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.

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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, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could

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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 enjoyment comes the will to win.

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It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

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