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“If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
“Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.”
“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
“Small is the number of them that build upon their boys, the foundation they had lain before.”
“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake, for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
“If you quit once it becomes a habit.”
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion.”
“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“Lost Time is never found again.”
“If the plan doesn't work, change the plan, but never the goal.”
“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
“Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.”
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
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