The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.