I’m a big fan of famous quotations, good public speakers, and those who just manage to say exactly the right thing at the right time.
I don’t really have one favorite, but I’ll get the ball rolling with:
“I have not failed 1000 times, I have successfully found 1000 ways that will not work”. - Thomas Edison
“fuck you larry” clm 2005
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“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost” Tolkien…
“fuck you larry” clm 2005
That would have been my second choice.
Geez, there are a ton of quotes I like. Here are a couple:
The Thing about common sense is that it is not very common.
-Voltaire
What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
Yeah, I liked that one too.
A slowtwitch quote seen frequently:
“I think it’s the simplicity of it all that get’s people confused.” Fleck
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Well, it’s not triathlon related, but my favourite quote of all time is
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer said it as they were testing the very first atomic bomb. It is a quote from the Bhagavad Gita (sorry, but the exact faith escapes me right now. Hindu I think?). Every time I hear that or think of it, I get chills up my spine. Perhaps I should not say that it is my favourite quote, since it regards something so terrible. But for me it is the most meaningful quote.
-Colin
" Beauty is Truth,truth beauty…that is all we know on earth and all we need to know".
John Keats from Ode on a Grecian Urn
It is from a Hindu text. As someone who has seen “The Hunt for Red October” roughly twenty times it plays a prominent role in the very clever switch from Russian to English.
Damn I love that movie.
“fuck you larry” clm 2005
“Fuck you, Donny”
Walter Sobchak - The Big Lebowski, 1998.
This thread is boring. Get a book of quotes, sit in the toilet and read.
Don’t forget to wash your hand(s) before you come back.
“jesus, i can’t even begin to tell you the contempt i have for people like you.”
Dan Empfield, aka Slowman, 2005
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I have two word for you: “shut the fuck-up” Robert DeNiro - Midnight Run
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I have two words for you - listen to Robert
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My mom has got a book full of quotes for every subject. I think that kinds of cheapens them, but at the same time, shows how many wonderful things people have said. Here’s some of mine.
Knocked down eight times, stand up nine. – Japenese proverb
Pain is weakness leaving the body – navy Seals
Nobody ever drowned in sweat – navy seals
“Throw Strikes. Changes Speeds. Work Fast” – Ray Miller, PItching coach
“Getting a fastball by hank Aaron is like getting the sun past the rooster” – A pitcher whose name escapes me.
When I was 14, my dad didn’t know anything. By the time I was 21, I was amazed at how much he learned in seven years. – Mark Twain
Everyone wants to win, nobody wants to prepare to win – lots of folks, I read it from Bobby Knight.
I coiuld fill this whole thread up with quotes. I won’t. There are voumes of websites listed them.
Almost every line from Bull Durhman is usable.
Marcus, Babylon 5:
“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. – Vince Lombardi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. --Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. --Vince Lombardi
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be
amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."
-Vince 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."
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." --Satchel Paige
“Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying. That’s Goddamm Right”
Here’s a long mother quote from Teddy Roosevelt (It’s on my office wall. Hell, I think every schoolkid should memorize it):
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
my dad and i are big quotes guys, and he always had this on his office wall when i was growing up. i love it:
when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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