Percy Cerutty Quotes

#1. In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

Lisa Cholodenko

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

Percy Cerutty

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

Percy Cerutty

#4. 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

#5. So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

Mose Allison

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

Percy Cerutty

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

Percy Cerutty

#8. A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual.

David Thomas

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

Frederick Lenz

#13. What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

Lucien Febvre

#14. EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

Ben Brantley

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

Percy Cerutty

#16. Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Arne Jacobsen

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

Percy Cerutty

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

Percy Cerutty

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

Percy Cerutty

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

Percy Cerutty

#21. The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

John Milton

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

Percy Cerutty

#23. Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

David Copperfield

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

Percy Cerutty

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

Percy Cerutty

#26. It is time to buddle (scrub in water) all that is not illutile (unwash-awayable). Baudelaire said that humans were deluded if they thought they could wash away all their spots with vile tears, but Baudelaire was French and therefore knew nothing about hygiene or shower gel.

Mark Forsyth

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

Percy Cerutty

#28. It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Stirling Moss

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

Percy Cerutty

#30. 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