Top 30 Percy Cerutty Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.
Percy Cerutty
#4. It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.
Stirling Moss
#5. Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!
Percy Cerutty
#6. 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
#7. To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.
Percy Cerutty
#9. Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
David Copperfield
#10. The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.
Percy Cerutty
#11. The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
John Milton
#14. Let the smokers and the gluttons die ... and leave the living to us who know how to use it.
Percy Cerutty
#15. Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.
Percy Cerutty
#16. 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
#17. If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.
Percy Cerutty
#18. EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST
Ben Brantley
#19. 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
#20. Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
Frederick Lenz
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone.
Percy Cerutty
#26. I'm not interested in athletics, I'm only interested in achievement. Fix your goal and work for it.
Percy Cerutty
#27. So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
Mose Allison
#28. 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
#29. While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
Percy Cerutty
#30. If you die, I will bury you in the sandhills with all the other runners.
Percy Cerutty
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