Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and earnings of one's neighbors.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.