The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

过去从未死去，它甚至还未过去。

故事的力量在于它能够连接我们所有人。

我们生来就带着某种包袱。我们就是我们：我们出生的地方，我们出生的身份，我们被抚养的方式。我们有点被困在那个人的身体里，而文明和成长的目的就是能够伸出手去，对其他人的感受有一点点的同情。

The American farmer is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything he buys at retail, sell everything he sells at wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.

"I don't think about the negatives. I just think about the positives."

我不在乎出名。我只想做人们能感同身受的音乐。

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

译文：东西长得太快容易早衰，成功来得太突然往往垮得也快。