Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

..it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.