"If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team."

“It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

“I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.”

“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

“After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books

“For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.”

“Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.”

“At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me,”

“Greatness follows those who lead the way.”