Quotes from Percy Cerutty

Run hard, be strong, think big!

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

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

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.

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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