One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

The only one who can beat me is me.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend Never communicating with the one who lives within.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.