Percy Cerutty Quotes

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• To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.
• Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.
• Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.
• The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
• Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what…
• I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you…
• Let the smokers and the gluttons die... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.
• Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.
• While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
• If it hurts, make it hurt more.
• Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or…
• If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.
• I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
• The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.
• If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.
• Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years.…
• Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the…
• Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!
• Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.
• Run hard, be strong, think big!

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