You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.
Interpretation
Great potential exists in everyone; whatβs needed is the right guidance and motivation.
Arthur Lydiard emphasizes that within every small community, there are individuals with the potential to excel as champions if they receive the necessary support, motivation, and structured training. This quote highlights the importance of nurturing talent and recognizing that greatness can emerge from the most unexpected places when individuals are given the tools to succeed.
In practice
Motivational speeches at sports events.
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.
Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
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