The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

Start before you’re ready.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.