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.

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

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.

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

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.

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.