UnderArmor made a shirt that said "I love two a days." I wish I'd bought that when I saw it because I haven't been able to find it again.

Around New Years a few years ago, Nike had one that said "I am your resolution." Also should have purchased that one.

great thread - I like the funny ones way better than the sappy ones

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Back in the day.. a friend of mine wore this Tshirt in a marathon..

Trained by Rosie Ruiz point me to the subway.

The marathon was in Ottawa which doesn't have a subway.

Was this "ground zero" for HTFU?

Brad

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I think this is the real source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y


Chopper Reid is a scary dude that has been "SNL'ed" in Australia.

Wow that may just be the greatest video on youtube.

"Triathlon: this much pain is expensive."

'Triathlon' is Latin for HTFU

Heh, I heard about HTFU from friends in GUTS (Georgia Ultra & Trailrunning Society) I found the Chopper video and fell out. Custom silicone bands are cheap, so I had a bunch in black and a few in pink made up with the spelled out version. For a buck and a half each I have great giveaways for friends, and the pink ones are excellent for whiners at any sort of race.

John

Wow, that's great. I must make a T-shirt with that one.

Guess I shoulda copyrighted it :)

I run on the roads, long before I dance under the lights

"Your seat is too high"

Dr. Stanley Goodspeed: I'll do my best.
John Mason: Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f**k the prom queen.

From Cairns: Macca went storming past on his second lap, he looked really fit. I heard later that he caught up to Clayton and another pro that had got out of the water first, eyeballed them and said
“Its not a half boys, we do this all day” and then accelerated away.

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Not triathlon related, but if you are a basketball follower I think its pretty funny..
"Don't ask Lebron for a dollar, because he doesn't have a 4th quarter"

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Can't he just give you a dollar bill? You blew the joke and missed the funny.

I did silicone bands - one side says 'Suck It Up Princess' (great for whiners) the other side says 'Shut Up Legs' (Jens Voigt)

Rule number one: cardio!

Only posting this b/c a group of 6 roadies yelled at me today on the river levee in NOLA. Guess they didn't like me passing.

"Drafting is for pussies!"

Not so much a saying but:
Worst thing about an Ironman Event: Mile marker 1.
Best thing about an Ironman Event: Mile marker 25.

The Ironman store had one that said "I don't do Ironman. I DO an Ironman.".

Do and sell them. I will buy!

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It is the mind itself which builds the body.
-Joseph Pilates

my buddy thought of one last weekend and i thought it wasn't half bad. and forgive me if its been previously posted in some form. i've read the whole thread but i just didn't want to re-read it to make sure this wasn't in there.

on the bike riding past an athlete of your sexual preference... "nice frame!... i like your bike too."

  
"Only 2 ways to leave an Ironman course: across the finish line or by ambulance"

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"Suck it up, Buttercup"
(me, to myself, every day)

"Nobody ever drowned in water.
Err, well..."

Here are a few of my favorites:


"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough."
--Mario Andretti


"Swimming is the worst part of a triathlon, if you stop peddaling on a bike you coast. if you stop running, you walk, but if you stop swimming you drown."

Fortitudine Vincimus (By Endurance We Conquer)


Commitment is doing the things you said you'd do, long after the mood you said it in has left you.


"People think it's an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It's never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either."
Batman


"Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve." - Stella Juarez


"I always start these events with very lofty goals, like I'm going to do something special, and after a point of body deterioration and the goals get evaluated down, which is basically where I am at now, where the best I can hope for is to avoid throwing up on my shoes." - Ephrain Romesberg, 65 miles into the Badwater Ultramarathon


"Ready?"
"Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you are going to do something massively unwise?"
"Tradition."
-- Sinclair and Delenn


Life's journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out yelling 'Holy Crap, what a ride!'


“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” -William Barclay


No one has ever drowned in sweat.
-Lou Holtz



A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
-Tom Landry

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
-Joe Patern

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"People think it's an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It's never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either."
Batman