There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
Interpretation
Great athletes understand and endure pain as part of their journey to excellence.
This quote emphasizes that true greatness in athletics is earned through the experience of pain and struggle. It suggests that the path to success in sports is not devoid of challenges, and those who achieve greatness must confront and learn from their pain, as it shapes their character and resilience.
In practice
In a motivational speech to young athletes, you could use this quote to highlight the importance of perseverance in sports.
Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic.
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
I want to feel I can help the club to believe they are good, and I want to feel the fans knowing the team is good. Sometimes you don't believe that because in the past, you have not won as many titles like the other ones.
As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.
I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
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