Quotable Coach - Coach Vandenbusche - The Big Red Machine Years

"We will run well at sea-level."
"Hell, when I was a kid and we had an injury like that, we'd spit on it, rub it in gravel, and be back at it in 24 hours."
"When we started off at the start of the year I told you there was 3 big meets: Conference Meet - that's my meet, Regional Meet- is the meet that we've got to qualify in to get to the National Championships, and here we are at the National Championships, and this is your meet. This is the one where there are opportunities and reputations to be made."
"Drink a lot of water tonight and tomorrow morning. But don't drink a lot at one time, that leads to getting a side stitch."
"I don't want to see 5 guys leaning on a tree watching the girls go by, you keep moving so we get a good cool down in."
"There can never be a let down tomorrow, there can't be 5 seconds that goes by that we have one of them evon gooligan walk abouts. Everybody has got to be paying attention out there, everybody's got to be focused in for every minute of the race whether it be 6k or 10k."
"When you run tomorrow think of all the hard work you put in this year."
"There will be no excuses after the race tomorrow."

"We will run well at sea-level."

"Hell, when I was a kid and we had an injury like that, we'd spit on it, rub it in gravel, and be back at it in 24 hours."

"When we started off at the start of the year I told you there was 3 big meets: Conference Meet - that's my meet, Regional Meet- is the meet that we've got to qualify in to get to the National Championships, and here we are at the National Championships, and this is your meet. This is the one where there are opportunities and reputations to be made."

"Drink a lot of water tonight and tomorrow morning. But don't drink a lot at one time, that leads to getting a side stitch."

"I don't want to see 5 guys leaning on a tree watching the girls go by, you keep moving so we get a good cool down in."

"There can never be a let down tomorrow, there can't be 5 seconds that goes by that we have one of them evon gooligan walk abouts. Everybody has got to be paying attention out there, everybody's got to be focused in for every minute of the race whether it be 6k or 10k."

"When you run tomorrow think of all the hard work you put in this year."

"There will be no excuses after the race tomorrow."

"If Western State goes into Pomona, California in the late morning of November 18, and everyone of my people are healthy, I'll take my chances with anybody in the nation."

"Rest, Vitamins, Eat Well, Stay Healthy."

"It's like the Jefferson's were moving on up"

"Let the Big Red Machine roll. It's greased, oiled and ready to roll."

"Little things mean a lot"

"On a scale from 1-10, this team is very good."

"Champions, are champions all the time"

"Two-thirds through the race is when the All-American's are separated from the rest of the pack."

"We don't leave anything to chance"

"You guys get on the other side of that chain link fence so you are out of the wind."

"There is one group of runners I can always count on, ALWAYS COUNT ON, and that's my distance runners"

"Is that rap crap still in."

"As long as I am associated with the program there will be no mediocrity. We will be good all the time."