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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

To finish first, you must first finish.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

They always win who side with God.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.

I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.