There Will Be Sweat

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.”

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”

It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn’t need one.”

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.”

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. To turn your good into better, and your better into best.”

The greatest battle is not physical but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet and steady dignity that simply refuses to give in. Courage. We all suffer. Keep going.”

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.”

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.”

Dude, there’s no way I could possibly do infinity pushups.”

It takes no talent to be in shape. So if you aren’t in shape, you just don’t care.”

The best time to plant an oak tree was 50 years ago, the second best time is today.”