If You Have A Body, You Are

The Real Purpose Of Running Isn't To Win A Race, It's To Test The Limits Of The Human Heart.

A Teacher Is Never Too Smart To Learn From His Pupils.

To Bring Inspiration And Innovation To Every Athlete* In The World.

This Killing Of Israel Athletes Is An Act Of War. And If There's One Place That War Doesn't Belong, It's Here. 1200 Years. From 776 B.c. To 393 A.d., Your Fellow Olympians Laid Down Their Arms To Take Part In These Games. They Understood There Was More Honor In Out Running A Man Than In Killing Him. I Hope The Competition Will Resume, And If It Does, You Must Not Think That Running Or Throwing Or Jumping Is Frivelous. The Games Were Once Your Fellow Olympians Answer To War – Competition, Not Conquest. Now, They Must Be Your Answer.

Men Of Oregon, I Invite You To Become Students Of Your Events. Running, One Might Say, Is Basically An Absurd Past-time Upon Which To Be Exhausting Ourselves. But If You Can Find Meaning, In The Kind Of Running You Have To Do To Stay On This Team, Chances Are You Will Be Able To Find Meaning In Another Absurd Past-time: Life.