If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

One chance is all you need.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. It takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you'll start believing in it.

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing it.

Find the good. Its all around you. Find it showcase it and youll start believing in it.

We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination dedication self discipline and effort.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination dedication self discipline and effort.

We all have dreams, in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, self-discipline and effort.

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent.

Dream. Believe. Create. Succeed.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

Everyone has tests in their life. They come in lots of different forms. I had two or three together, which definitely challenged me as a person and as a sportsman. The big thing is how you react to those situations. You want to come out positively at the other end, and that's what I focused on doing.

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.

Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom that springs from the soul.

If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble - humble or crumble - because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.