Percy Cerutty Quotes

Percy Wells Cerutty was an Australian athletics coach in the 1950s and 1960s.

The eccentric Australian pioneered a home-spun system of "Stotan" training, embracing a holistic regime of natural diets, hard training in natural surroundings, and mental stimulation.

Cerutty coached Herb Elliott to a series of world record performances, culminating in an Olympic gold medal in the 1960 Rome Games. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. January 1895 – 14. August 1975
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Percy Cerutty Quotes

“To become great, whether an artist, a musician, a writer, a philosopher or creator or scientist, even as one great in sport, the secret lies, assuming there is some native ability in the first place, in one factor above all others – emotion.”

On Greatness; as quoted in "Unrequited obsession" https://www.smh.com.au/national/unrequited-obsession-20081011-gdsydo.html by Chris Jefferis, The Sydney Morning Herald (11 October 2008).

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