I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

We cannot please all men but we can be a blessing to many.

We are all alone in this world

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.