In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

None of us really know what we’re doing, ” Dia replied. “We just go out there and do it and have faith it’ll turn out okay.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.