I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

You said I was weak. You said I couldn't do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

Don't let fatigue make a coward of you.

I’d chase you anyway. I’ll chase you forever.

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.