While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.

I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.