Training is principally an act of faith.

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

If a person gives you his time he can give you no more precious gift.

A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.