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.

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.

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

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.

Don’t overwork! Enjoy the sacred existence.

Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose its way.

Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they’d win the Stanley Cup.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.