I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results.

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

He has one in a million chance of being with her, yet he dreams about that single chance every night.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.” ― Traci Lea LaRussa

Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,

Success has killed more men than bullets.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace, ' 'A Farewell to Arms, ' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.