Cerutty Quotes

#1. To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

John Landy

#2. When you battle for something it is like you are trying to push your realization into the alternatives space, whereas when you choose something the space comes to you.

Vadim Zeland

#3. Do not lose heart nor hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come.

Barack Obama

#5. We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

Oswald Chambers

#6. Let the smokers and the gluttons die ... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

Percy Cerutty

#7. Right isn't always legal.

J.S.B. Morse

#8. If it hurts, make it hurt more.

Percy Cerutty

#9. Run hard, be strong, think big!

Percy Cerutty

#10. Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

Percy Cerutty

#11. The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

Percy Cerutty

#12. Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

Percy Cerutty

#13. What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.

Luis Villalobos

#14. To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

Percy Cerutty

#15. Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

Percy Cerutty

#16. My weight fluctuates constantly - I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

Megan Fox

#17. Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

Percy Cerutty

#18. 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 at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

Percy Cerutty

#19. 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 where, the what.

Percy Cerutty

#20. If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.

Percy Cerutty

#21. While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.

Percy Cerutty

#22. 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 you are prepared to do.

Percy Cerutty

#23. I manage fine with no others around;
I cannot manage without you.
My heart bears your brand,
it won't wander away from you.
Reason's eye blurs with your wine
heaven's wheel spins under your thumb Pleasure's nose follows your lead,
I cannot manage without you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#24. I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.

Percy Cerutty

#25. You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone.

Percy Cerutty

#26. Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.

Ernest Becker

#27. The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

Herbert Gold

#28. He wanted me to believe in something. I believe in plenty of things, I thought with a bitter smile. I believed that I was going to die tomorrow.

Galaxy Craze

#29. But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life

Percy Cerutty

#30. 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.

Percy Cerutty

#31. God leads every soul by a separate path.

John Of The Cross

#32. When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

Bill Gates

#33. If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

Percy Cerutty

#34. I'm little but I'm old.

Harper Lee

#35. We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Idries Shah