I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

We're lost, but we're making good time

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

The best way out is always through.