Alberto Salazar Quotes

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

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Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

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We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

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I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

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Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. Runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. Men who broke 2: 20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

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Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

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I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

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