CoachSwanson’s most recent Quotables

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.

I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. 
Try to be better than yourself.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

I tell our runners to divide the race into thirds. Run the first part with your head, the middle part with your personality, and the last part with your heart.

Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Success comes from preparation.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.