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)
Joe Moya
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
“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”
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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”
“Who are those guys???”
Butch Casssidy & the Sundance Kid
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Sorry Kevin - I admit to knowing very little about hockey and its players - I’m originally from Texas and football rules down there. I suppose to a Canadian it must be something like blasphemy to misspell the name of Gretzky.
Thanks - the correction has been made.
Is canada a country? I thought it was some sort of sub station like antarctica. AND are you supposed to be on an American site???
You win a person’s mind when you speak a language they understand. You win a person’s heart when you speak to them in their language.
Nelson Mandela
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” Pre
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My favorite comes from an unusual source - the movie trainspotting. i have it up in my office.
People think it’s all about misery and desperation and death and sht, whcih is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn’t do it. After all, we’re not f**ing stupid.
I had to laugh out loud on this on, thanks to ‘Doug in CO’
Problem-solving 101 - if you can’t fix it with duct tape, it’s probably going to take a 2x4…
Specifically, from other posters on this forum.
My new favourite Tom D quote is: *Those bikes have Q-factor big enough for Anna Nicole Smith. *
*Heh heh heh… *
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What’s yours?
Great quote, just what I needed to see about now.
When you have to shoot. shoot. don’t talk
good bad & the ugly
You know how to cut to the core of me, Baxter. You’re so wise. You’re like a miniature Buddha, covered in hair.
for all the numbers geeks:
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)
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Mario Andretti: “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”
Susan.
“Warm-up? The only warm-up I got was when the guy behind me at the startingline pissed on my calves”
-Anders Szalkai, Swedish Marathon Champion