One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

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

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

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.