"If you wish to be out front, act as if you were behind."
lao tso (or something like that)

"You get to see, in a non-lethal environment, what you and your friends are made of"
John Collins, describing why he founded the Ironman

From an attractive woman passing me on the run at Ironman Fla.

"is that a glow stick in your racebelt, or are you just glad to see me?"

made my race! ted3

 "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - FDR

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." - JFK

"No Sniveling" - on the seatstay of a friend’s tandem

"Youth is wasted on the Young" - George Bernard Shaw

"I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet." - Anonymous

"Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen." - Jesus

  

Bob from Davis, California, offers this ulta cycling tip:

"You have to ask yourself three questions. One. Am I bleeding from my eye sockets? Two. Am I projectile vomiting? Three. Are organs that are meant to be on the inside of my body on the outside? If you can't answer 'yes' to any of those questions, get back on your bike and keep riding!"

http://www.geocities.com/slbeaver/#quote

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"My strategy is to start out slow and then peter-out altogether" Walt Stack

Woman (to Winston Churchill): If you were my husband, I'd poison your drink!

Churchill: Madame, if you were my wife I'd drink it!

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell

GJB- sorry about my more recent, and very similar member name.

Here's another Winston (paraphrased) quote for you anyway, also involving a woman:

Woman - "Egad, you're drunk!"

WC - " By morning I shall be sober. You however, will still be ugly."

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"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.

Another Churchhill:

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

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David
* Ironman for Life! (Blog) * IM Everyday Hero Video * Daggett Shuler Law *
Disclaimer: I have personal and professional relationships with many athletes, vendors, and organizations in the triathlon world.

...and , The Golden Rule:

"Therefore all that you wish men to do to you, even so do also to them." Matthew 7:12

I always try to keep this one as a motto. How about the way we treat fellow competitors, race volunteers, etc. Sometimes in the heat of it I really need this stamped on my forehead!

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David
* Ironman for Life! (Blog) * IM Everyday Hero Video * Daggett Shuler Law *
Disclaimer: I have personal and professional relationships with many athletes, vendors, and organizations in the triathlon world.

I drank what?!?!

- Socrates

Hey, GBJ, it's all good baby! Though I did do a double-take the first time I saw one of your posts!

Nice to meet ya.

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell

Mine? Why open your mouth and prove yourself a fool when you can keep your mouth closed and make them wonder.randall

The key to endurance racing is summed up in a Funkadelic song/album title: Free your mind and your a** will follow.

"Ultimately, our greatest adversaries are our own perceived limitations." (I said that in a rare moment of brilliance but probably stole it subconsciously from somewhere).

"What we do in life echoes in eternity" Maximus Aeroilius in "Gladiator".

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

"It's easy to shine when things are easy. Anyone can do that. It's when things are tough that you really have a chance to shine. Like when you're cold, wet and tired. That's when you can really rise above and shine." Corporal Wiley, 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Infantry, 1984.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

I keep this quote on the cover of my training diary:
"THE PAIN OF DISCIPLINE WEIGHS OUNCES, BUT THE PAIN OF NEGLECT WEIGHS TONS"-Arno Jannsen

We had this quote posted above the door of our boathouse, back when i rowed:

"Pain is temporary, pride is forever."

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Want: 58cm Cervelo Soloist. PM me if you have one to sell

Vintage Cervelo: A Resource

Another one from Steven Wright:

"Some people are afraid of heights, I'm afraid of widths."

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TonyG

What is Enoch Root?

More of my favorites....................

"I must confess, I could use some rest......I can't run at this pace very long" J Buffet

"Its quite insane, I think it hurts my brain, but I cleans me out then I can go on" J Buffet

"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane"

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Confucius

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil


"Improvise...adapt...overcome!" - Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway

Since Highschool:

"Good Day. We Are priviledged to live another day in this magnificient world. Today you will be tested." from Assault on Lake Casitas

In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning -- Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning"

"Every mighty oak was once a nut that stood it's ground."

Ann Louise Gittleman - "The Fat Flush Plan" (and I'm not making it up)

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Joe Moya

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

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"shoulda,coulda,woulda" via wrestling coach

"you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit" via track coach

"Dad, it's not very expensive, just pocket change" via 10 year old son

and to top it all off, my personal favorite and guiding philosophy, "shit or get off the pot"

ken, you had better be from the states, because its gretzky!!! the guy who helped canada kick the usa's ass in hockey!!! :) (not that we would have had any problems on our own)

“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.”

-Lombardi

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."



and my grad quote...said by me:



Image is nothing, unfourtantely some dont realize this until its too late.



"Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take, the time passes anyway"

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"Anyone can work hard when they want to; Champions do it when they don't."