Question: Do great athletes have a kind of unconscious aspiration?
Sri Chinmoy: There are athletes who are far, far better than we, infinitely superior to us as athletes. But when it is a matter of inner aspiration, they have none. It will take them hundreds of incarnations to realise God, whereas we have the opportunity to realise God even in this incarnation.
Sri Chinmoy, Politics and spirituality: can they go together?, Agni Press, 1977