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

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

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

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

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 mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life