It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.
I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.
The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.
There is not a truth existing which I fear. . . or would wish unknown to the whole world.
I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility. . . Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.