It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Really. I'd love to be spoiled on by others.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.

If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run