Percy Cerutty Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

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

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.

Run hard, be strong, think big!