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“I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.”

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.”

“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”

“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”

“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”

“How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.”

“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.”

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.”

“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”