I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

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 utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

We have not received the Spirit of God because we believe, but that we may believe.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.