Cerutty Quotes & Sayings

Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. — Percy Cerutty

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain. — Percy Cerutty

Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY. — Heather Brewer

Run hard, be strong, think big! — Percy Cerutty

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

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

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

What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it
a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial. — Italo Calvino

I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you are out to win you are better not wanting to know your opponent, much less grow to like him - and wish him, honestly success over you. I have never functioned that way. — Percy Cerutty

Memory is the happiness of being alone. — Lois Lowry

If it hurts, make it hurt more. — Percy Cerutty

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

I don't agree on spending time with someone who is more attached to his cell phone than he is to me. — Mohamed Ghazi

I looked to my boyfriend to satisfy my Godbreathed longing for acceptance. I had my first glimpse of what it might feel like to be loved in a romantic way. It didn't take long for me to become addicted to that feeling. — Emily P. Freeman

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

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you. — John Grisham

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

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. — Ray Stevenson

Mapleshade unsheathed her scarlet, broken claws. "Leave me alone," she rasped, forcing herself to lift her head and glare at her companion. "I don't need anyone. — Erin Hunter

You will be someone else if you did not answer the question "Who am I — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation. — Ramakrishna

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

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

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

West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner — Josh Lanyon

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

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own. — Ann Brashares

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

Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life. — Percy Cerutty

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing. — Harry Belafonte

I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me? — Kat Graham

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

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

To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him. — John Landy