Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

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.

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

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.

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

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.