“The will to succeed is nothing without the will to prepare” - Juma Ikaanga
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Whoever smelt it, dealt it–Socrates
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“I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.” - Ted Simon from “Jupiter’s Travels”
“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run then walk. If you can’t walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - MLK
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” - Muhammad Ali
“Leadership, I think you must have that, particularly when a team’s on the field, they look to you. In critical situations, they look into your eyes to see if you’re there. If you’re not there, they start quitting.”
~Dan Marino, Sr.~
from Running with the Buffaloes - “when you wake up and you’re tired, think, they all want to be you.”
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“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 and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
-Teddy Roosevelt
“KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT THE FIRES!!!”
-Independence Day
John Krakauer - In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly… For some, the province of the extreme holds an allure that’s irresistible… As a result of his or her infatuation, existence overflows with purpose. Ambiguity vanishes from the fanatic’s worldview; a narcissistic sense of self assurance displaces all doubt. His perspective narrows until the last remnants of proportion are shed from his life. Through immoderation, he experiences something akin to rapture.
Wow, I really like that.
Do it dad!
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whole bunch of good ones here too
http://www.teamtbb.com/forum/index.php?topic=1130.0
“Today I do what you won’t, so tomorrow I do what you can’t.”
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
My sig line, and “The desire to finish means nothing without the desire to prepare”.
Frankie Wilde:
“I’m an honest man. and I can tell you this album was made… completely without the aid of the ears… and at passion next week I’ll be djing as a deaf man. And if you don’t beileve me, well fuck you… because I’ve got nothing… nothing to prove to you … sluts.”
Max:
“Now hold on… Hold on. Listen…listen… Frank loves sluts… he loves sluts.”
- “It’s all gone Pete Tong”:
“I’ve been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass for the past 11 years! That’s 3,000 pennies a day; 21,000 pennies a week; 1,092,000 pennies a year! To date that’s 12,012,000 pennies, 8 times the population of Nebraska. Those pennies were in my ass! You think you’re better than me? Oh, you’re not better than me. You handle my ass pennies everyday. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with.”
- I saved this one, and I think it was by the kids in the hall guys, but I’m not sure
Life is one constant defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead"
-Homer Simpson
“You__ (insert: swim, bike or run)__ like old people fuck, slow and ugly”
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This has always been my favorite from despair.com
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Not a quote but Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena” speech is extremely motivational.
“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.”
Fatigue makes cowards of us all - Vince Lombardi
There are two kinds of pain: The pain of discipline, and the pain of regret - unknown
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The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
All by Prefontaine.
John
“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness” - Arnold Lobel
“We are made to persist. That is how we find out who we are” - Tobias Wolff
“Today I do what others will not, so that tomorrow I can do what others can’t” - not sure who wrote it but it got me out of bed early on a lot of mornings to work out when I was tempted to go back to sleep.
“We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start”
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