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.

Training is principally an act of faith.

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.

All you have already done, achieved and opened it is not a potential

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.