Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

Training is principally an act of faith.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

If you believe that you're doing will positive results, it will - even if it's not immediately obvious.

She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

The only thing that I'm sure of is I don't know, but I know that positivity works.

Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side.