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.

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

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

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.

Run hard, be strong, think big!

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.