I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

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.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves nor half the evil they say of others.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

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