The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

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

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.

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.

we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality.

That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.