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.

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

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

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.

(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.

You either live to become an anchor of inspiration for those around you, or you live to become an anchor for a lesson for them. Whatever you become, it is entirely up to you to decide.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

I want people to enjoy the fruits of their labors.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.