In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

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 need never be ashamed of our tears.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.