Frank Shorter

Again, racing for me was about energy management. ”

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves. ”

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective. ”

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs. ”

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. ”

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. ”

It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go. ”

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time. ”

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time. ”

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer. ”