There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

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.

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

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

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.

Learn soon...Reach moon by bus, if you late ...they will kike you out

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount-that is the measure of God’s love for you.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.