If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

Fate is not in man but around him

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Will without Power is incomplete and power without will is dangerous when will and will power both are present, implementation is easy!!!!

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame