Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation. ' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
You are what you love.