Michael Johnson

"Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best."

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, Rocky

"Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. "

Jesse Ventura as Blain, Predator

"I ain't got time to bleed."

Team Guy Motto, Naruto Shippudden

"Stronger than the you of yesterday."

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. "