Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.

A dead Christ I must do everything for

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.