To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

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.

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.

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself, " Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

Cookies at both of them. The cookies are probably better at Letterman though.

If you read, you'll judge.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!