It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
All that I am is because of my mind.
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.
I ran for myself, not Finland.
Journalism is organized gossip.
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.