- A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
- A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
- As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
- 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.
- That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
- The basis of self-discipline: Don’t allow the edges to blur.
- Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
- It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.
- You can’t control what the other athlete is going to do; you can’t control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
- The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it’s extremely important when you’re winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
10 inspirational michael johnston quotes on success
