When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we need to do is train them properly.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.

Champions are everywhere, you just have to train them properly

My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I'd really love to make something that doesn't involve my stupid face.

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.