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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing more romantic than absolute presence.

It’s a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

Every time you say ‘but’, you aregiving yourself a get-out clause.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

It felt like a small forever.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.