List of Alberto Salazar Quotes

I'm Doing Great Heart-wise. I Get A Complete Stress Test Once A Year, And Those Have Gone Well. I Have Stents In Two Arteries, And They Are Holding Up. My Other Arteries Haven't Shown Any Additional Clogging.

I Run Four Miles Most Days, At About 8:00 To 8:15 Pace. It's Totally Relaxed.

I Think In Running, To Be Honest, That Even Though Athletes Are Very Dedicated And Are Willing To Train And Do Whatever They Need To Do To Prepare, More Often Than Not They're Not In A Very Professional Environment Where You've Got A High Performance Director And A Coach That Are Really Monitoring Your Daily Activities.

The Marathon Is Like A Bullfight.

I'm Interested In Dathan Ritzenhein's Future In The Marathon, And I Believe That's Where We Need To Address Some Issues He Seems To Have. He's Had Good Marathon Coaches - Both Brad Hudson And Me. He's Figured Out The Fueling. He's Got This Incredible Aerobic Engine. But Something's Still Wrong.

I Can't Tell You Why A Particular Athlete Would Leave A Certain Coach, But I Can Tell You There Could Be Many Reasons. They Could Have Personality Conflicts. They Could Have Misunderstandings. Lots Of Stuff Can Happen.

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.

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.

With My Runners Now, They Get Two Month-long Breaks During The Year.

I've Never Enjoyed My Running More. I Also Do 200 Sit-ups A Day, 60 Push-ups, And A Lot Of Stretching. I've Had Some Back Issues. I Think The Stretching Helps With That.

You Have To Change Things In Order To Get To Where You Want To Go. And Things Might Get Worse. But If You're Not Getting Where You Want To Be, Already, In A Sense, It's As Bad As It Can Get.

I Didn't Give Myself Enough Breaks During The Training Year To Recover. I Didn't Understand The Power Of Periodization.