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.

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.

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

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

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

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

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