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.

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

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.

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

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

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

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