Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.