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.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you are out to win you are better not wanting to know your opponent, much less grow to like him - and wish him, honestly success over you. I have never functioned that way.

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

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