How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes?

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.

The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

You shouldn't rush, he said. There are no taste buds in your stomach.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.