"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."
- Steve Prefontaine

"I asked myself: What are you feeling? It wasn’t joy. It wasn’t relief. 
If I felt anything, it was . . . regret? Good God, I thought. 
Yes. Regret. 
Because I honestly wished I could do it all over again."
- Phil Knight 

“When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.” - Bertice Berry

“what we choose to focus on and 
what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life.” 
- Cal Newport

“It is not the critic who counts; 
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, 
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;" - Theodore Roosevelt