Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
First do it, then say it.
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.
i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.