A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy
If you have a body, you are an athlete.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that?s in it, And?you?ll be a Man, my son!
The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.