Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.