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.

Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.

If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.

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

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

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