'A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.'

'I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.'

'I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of ch…

'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. I do give …

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whos…

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.