Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

The only one who can beat me is me.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

The U.K. really is made up of four nations that never really became one.

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.