Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
– Arthur Lydiard
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
– Arthur Lydiard
It's a lot of hard work for five, six or seven years. There's no secret formula. There's no shortcut to the top.
– Arthur Lydiard
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
– Arthur Lydiard
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.
– Arthur Lydiard
Your aerobic development is a gradual thing. It takes years and years of marathon-type training to develop your aerobic capacity to the fullest.