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| KenD | Keep Moving Forward | | |
| KenD | One must try by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. - Sophocles | | |
| KenD | Knowledge is power. - Sir Francis Bacon | | |
| KenD | Careful planning is the key to safe and swift travel. - Ulysses | | |
| KenD | In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance not to lose one's head. - M. Antoinette | | |
| KenD | By perserving over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. - C. Columbus | | |
| KenD | Nothing is impossible. Anything can be accomplished with proper preparation and planning. - Ponce De Leon | | |
| KenD | Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. - Muhammed Ali | | |
| KenD | You need the tenacity to stick to it when things get tough. And have faith that you can do it. - Chuck Norris | | |
| KenD | Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr Seuss | | |
| KenD | Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. - J K Rowling | | |
| KenD | Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein | | |
| KenD | Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger | | |
| KenD | You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams | | |
| KenD | I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan | | |
| KenD | I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. - Mia Hamm | | |
| KenD | Screw Prozac, run. - RThomas | | |
| huskietns14 | The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching. - Anson Dorrance - U.S. Womens World Cup Soccer Coach | | |
| huskietns14 | It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. - Winston Churchill | | |
| huskietns14 | It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. - Winston Churchill | | |
| huskietns14 | Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them. - Mia Hamm | | |
| huskietns14 | The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli | | |
| wrybosome | Sometimes I wonder if I need my ass whooped or if I really just need to sleep all day. - Owie | | |
| ChainringTatoo | You are only young once, but you can be immature forever. | | |
| ChainringTatoo | Ride it like you mean it | | |
| Pro_rider | The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese | | |
| Pro_rider | "The main thing is to not cut yourself and bleed to death in the tub." -- Frankie Andreu (Retired US Postal Service Racer) on leg shaving advice | | |
| Pro_rider | "Pain is a big fat creature riding on your back. The farther you pedal, the heavier he feels. The harder you push, the tighter he squeezes your chest. The steeper the climb, the deeper he digs his jagged, sharp claws into your muscles." - Scott Martin | | |
| Pro_rider | "This is not Disneyland, or Hollywood. I'll give you an example: I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else." - Lance Armstrong | | |
| Pro_rider | "There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide." - Rolf Arands | | |
| Pro_rider | "Run like hell and get the agony over with." - Clarence DeMar | | |
| Stealth | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. | | |
| bigfish | If your ship does not come in, swim to it. bigfish | | |
| ChainringTatoo | "Breathe deeply, panting is for dogs!" | | |
| shaycahal | "those who dare , win" david sterling | | |
| LJSChicago | "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're probably right." - Henry Ford | | |
| max | "Average is your enemy" - Lance Armstrong | | |
| max | "When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing." - Lance Armstrong | | |
| vmax3000 | "It is at night that faith in light is most admirable." - Edmond Rostand | | |
| silent | "If you havent lost a toenail on a long run, you havent ran far enough" | | |
| rayman350 | "The body can only do so much, after that, mind and soul takes over" | | |
| shaycahal | things done by half are never done right | | |
| shaycahal | if you want it ,it is not a dream. "theodor hertzel" | | |
| annie | Who ever wears out the most toys wins. | | |
| Proactive4Life | “It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.” | | |
| rookie44 | "Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, Fearless of unknown shores." Walt Whitman | | |
| lincsguyus | Never underestimate the power of a rest day | | |
| pcctim | "Pain is weakness leaving the body" | | |
| JayC | “You can quit if you want, and no one will care. But you will know the rest of your life.” – John Collins(Founder of The Ironman). | | |
| JayC | "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
| JayC | It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius | | |
| JayC | Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton | | |
| LoveLifeLea | begin each day as if it were on purpose | | |
| LoveLifeLea | If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there | | |
| LoveLifeLea | The Purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly adn without fear for newer and richer experience | | |
| LoveLifeLea | Never be frightenend to walk out of step with others because you will walk on ground no one else touches | | |
| LoveLifeLea | Whereever you go, go with all your heart | | |
| LoveLifeLea | Dream your dreams with open eyes, and make them come true | | |
| LoveLifeLea | No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted | | |
| LoveLifeLea | Act as if every event has a purpose, and your life will have a purpose | | |
| LoveLifeLea | Have the discipline to do the little things you don't like and you can spend your life doing the big things you do like | | |
| CLLinIA | "Younger, faster, stronger - and I train while you sleep." - British rowing shirt | | |
| Stealth | Don't count your chickens before they hatch | | |
| bootygirl | "The more you sweat, the less you bleed" - posted in the boxing room of my gym | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | To Tri Or Tri Not That Is The Question | | |
| la0sa | Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. | | |
| joeinco | For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. | | |
| coredump | There are three types of people in the world. The immovable, the movable, and those that move. | | |
| la0sa | Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. | | |
| tmwelshy | That water looks uphill.... - Me. | | |
| Ron | My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light! - Edna St. Vincent Millay | | |
| uzziel | This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature
Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy. --George Bernard Shaw | | |
| bootygirl | Does my Kirby come with a liposuction attachment? | | |
| joeinco | Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill any day. - unknown | | |
| bootygirl | Your brain is more active while you are sleeping than while you are watching TV | | |
| sekhmet | If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves- Thomas Edison | | |
| qbtri | Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.-- Dena Strum | | |
| keepitup | The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary - Vidal Sassoon | | |
| keepitup | Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt -- Jose Ortega y Gassel | | |
| keepitup | If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average -- Leonard Louis Levinson | | |
| rudyncc33 | "If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, then yours is the world and everything in it." -Rudyard Kipling | | |
| bootygirl | "The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." - Maya Anjelou | | |
| lincsguyus | "The swim will come in time..." - Many people on this list giving advice to newbies | | |
| teechur | The successful person will do the things that the unsuccessful person will not. | | |
| teechur | Winners plan, losers whine. | | |
| chivo_montes | "If you can fill a minute/ with 60 seconds worth of distance run/ the world will be yours and all that’s in it/ and what’s more, you’ll be a man my son."(Ruyard Kipling"IF") | | |
| montyb | pain is weakness leaving the body | | |
| bikegal | The only limits in life are those you impose on yourself. ~author unknown~ | | |
| Leighsah | It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled 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 knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows 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 know neither victory nor defeat." Teddy Roosevelt. Ask yourself every morning if you're in the arena. | | |
| heatheryan | If at first you don't suceed, tri tri again. | | |
| jmc1888 | If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward | | |
| marmadaddy | The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - FDR | | |
| marmadaddy | Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George E. Woodberry | | |
| Stealth | "You just gotta go for it" - Craig Braggins | | |
| bejay | Life can only be understood backwards but must be lived fowards | | |
| Administrator | Try a Tri | | |
| Ron | unless your the lead dog, the scenery never changes | | |
| Ron | "Fate can only bring you to the door, it is up to you to open it and walk in!" | | |
| Ron | The door is in your mind, open the doors in your mind and see what you can really do | | |
| Ron | It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. - Muhammad Ali | | |
| Ron | Sports do not build character, they reveal it. - Heywood Hale Brow | | |
| Michael | "Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden- | | |
| Ron | "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| Ron | "Complacency is the enemy of growth." The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell. | | |
| Ron | "One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." G. K. Chesterton. | | |
| Ron | "A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence!" Folk Zen saying | | |
| Ron | "Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort." The three qualities necessary for (Zen) training. | | |
| Ron | "When hungry , eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean." Lin-Chi. | | |
| Ron | 'Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.' -Anonymous | | |
| Irish_Fat_Fighter | The sun shines on a dogs arse every now and again | | |
| JayC | "Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them". -- Norman Vincent Peale | | |
| JayC | "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." -- Napoleon Hill | | |
| JayC | "Obstacles are the things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." -- E. Joseph Cossman | | |
| JayC | "No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Ron | "most people overestimate what they can accomplish in 12 weeks....and underestimate what they can accomplish in 12 months" - anonymous | | |
| Irish_Fat_Fighter | Is my bum as big as the cyclist in front? (One for the ladies) | | |
| Ron | Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn | | |
| Ron | "A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong. " - unknown | | |
| Ron | "Pain. Love it, hate it, get angry at it. Breath it with every breath, feel it with every step and use it. It lets you know you are still alive, more alive than most people will be in their whole lives." - Strauss | | |
| Ron | "It is better to eat the baked potato, than to be the couch potato." 45tri | | |
| Ron | "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi | | |
| Ron | "Scars heal...glory fades..and all we're left with are the memories made. Pain hurts, but only for a minute, yeah life is short, so go on and live it" - Megan Rose Leighliter | | |
| Ron | "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle | | |
| Ron | "Most mistakes in a race are made in the first two minutes, perhaps in the very first minute." Jack Daniels, Exercise Physiologist and Coach | | |
| cycle01 | Some people "dream" of being #1, while others wake up everyday and "work hard" at it. Are you a dreamer or a hard worker? | | |
| Irongirl | "Intention without action is just a daydream" Amber Dawn | | |
| 45tri | Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley | | |
| Sharkie | "Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Sharkie | When life hands you lemons, ask for a bottle of tequila and salt..... | | |
| CHR15 TREE | Carpe Diem Baby! | | |
| mocca93 | Pain is temporary, pride is forever. | | |
| Ron | "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." - Ray Knight | | |
| dennis | "The Hardest part of any Training program is Starting" | | |
| Michael | It takes more courage to start than it does to finish! John Bingham | | |
| Rio | Every so often the dog has to battle the bear just so he can call himself a dog again. - Faulkner | | |
| Ron | “We are made to persist. That is how we find out who we are.” – Tobias Wolff | | |
| madmedic3 | "Today's mighty oak tree was once just some nut who held his ground" | | |
| Ron | Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did! - Newt Gingrich | | |
| Ron | "There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going..." Irongirl | | |
| Ron | To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." --Steve Prefontaine | | |
| Ron | Don't allow anyone to tell you what you can and cannot do. Be tough, be stubborn, love yourself, and find friends who believe in you. Recognize your victories." - Joan Benoit Samuelson | | |
| Ron | "I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability." Marla Runyan, legally blind US 1500M Olympic hopeful. | | |
| LoverBoyPhil | Figure out tonight how you're going to be better tomorrow. | | |
| LoverBoyPhil | Mind over matter. | | |
| LoverBoyPhil | Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. | | |
| madmedic3 | "Excellence is not something attained & put in a trophy case. It is not sought after, achieved, and, thereafter, a steady state. It is a momentary phenomenon, a rare conjunction of body, mind & spirit at one's peak. Should I come to that peak, I cannot stay there. Like Sisyphus, I must start each day at the bottom & work back up to the top. And then beyond that peak to another & yet another." - Dr. George Sheehan | | |
| Ron | A strange thing, our kind of punishment! - Nietzsche | | |
| Ron | Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion – you must set yourself on fire - Anonymous | | |
| Ron | I would rather know than believe. - Carl Sagan | | |
| dpatterson3223 | Do or do not there is no try.- Yoda | | |
| jbeach | Animus Facessere Anima Audere (The will to do, the soul to dare)-Latin | | |
| Sharkie | 'Apathy is lethal' - Anonymous | | |
| marauder13 | 'Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they never come." -Janet Erskine Stuart | | |
| marauder13 | "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have one single bit of talant left and could say, I used everything you gave me" -Erma Bombeck | | |
| jbeach | "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever." -Apostle Paul (I Corinthians 9:24,25) | | |
| pbennett | "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed" - Lloyd Jones | | |
| stevebd62 | "It's the journey that makes the destination worthwhile" | | |
| LoverBoyPhil | Potential just means you ain't doing it! | | |
| RichardB | Youth and exuberance is no match for old age and treachery. | | |
| Grandy | Nothing gets you up a hill faster than love, hate, or pure determination | | |
| miss_maria | "I run so I do not lose the me I was yesterday and the me I might be tomorrow" -George Sheehan | | |
| LoverBoyPhil | More isn't better. Better is better! | | |
| Eightman | "All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk". -Ayn Rand | | |
| speedlee | "If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle." -Meredith Rainey Valmon | | |
| speedlee | "If what you did yesterday still looks big to you today, then you must not have done anything today." -Unknown | | |
| speedlee | "The race isn't over until you cross the finish line. You'll be surprised at how much can change in the last twenty strides." -Jackie Dugall | | |
| speedlee | "I always wanted to be somebody... If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me." -Althea Gibson | | |
| speedlee | "I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody." -Kenyon Martin | | |
| Deantan | Theres only one thing more painful than carrying on. Giving up! | | |
| Rio | " Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered by failures, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat" - Teddy Roosevelt | | |
| speedlee | "In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser. To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing, and that's exactly what you will get, nothing." -Patrick Boles | | |
| speedlee | "Training gives us an outlet for supressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body." -Arnold Schwarzennegger | | |
| speedlee | "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein | | |
| speedlee | "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself --and you are the easiest person to fool." -Richard Feynman | | |
| Bigpikle | "Your past is not your potential" Unknown | | |
| quiddity | Would'st thou live a coward in thine own esteem? Letting "I would" wait upon "I dare not," like the poor cat i'th adage? Macbeth | | |
| DharmaBum | The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -Vince Lombardi | | |
| DharmaBum | "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." -Gayle Sayers | | |
| mjvasque | "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming . . . just keep swimming" ~ Dory "Finding Nemo" [this 'power-phrase' helps out in situations well beyond the water] | | |
| Brx | "Lead, follow, or get out the way" | | |
| Brx | "I'm running down a dream..." - Tom Petty | | |
| Conmanusmc | "FIDO...Forget it, drive on." -anonymous Marine | | |
| Tate | "Practice makes permanent, not perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect permanance." | | |
| Capt Kiwi | Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself…Mary Schmich | | |
| KenD | Keep Moving Forward | | |
| russellherrington | "you only hit what you aim at" unknown | | |
| warr01 | "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Confucious | | |
| warr01 | "Put up or shut up" | | |
| GamblerZ | All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | Great acts are made up of small deeds. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. - Lao Tzu | | |
| GamblerZ | When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. - Lao Tzu | | |
| ssyba | Treat everyday as if it were Jan 2nd. | | |
| sjones | Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ~Ruth E. Renkel | | |
| Irongirl | "No Challenge, No Change" - From my spin class instructor | | |
| Tate | "Do or do not, there is no try" Yota | | |
| Tate | "Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up and knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazell or it will starve. Every morning in Africa a gazell wakes up and knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten."- Authur Unknown | | |
| Tate | "If you don't make dust, than you are eating it." | | |
| recondaddy | "The main cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment." | | |
| recondaddy | "Those who are warriors can master anything, but they must first master themselves." -- USMC | | |
| Sharkie | "Take the small steps and just simply try." - Explorer Ann Bancroft | | |
| Sharkie | "If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti | | |
| Sharkie | "He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg." - Chinese proverb | | |
| Sharkie | "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sales. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain | | |
| Sharkie | "You'll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky | | |
| sfraleyiii | "That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself changed, but that our power to do is increased"...H.J.Grant | | |
| westfried | Far better to be DFL than DNF | | |
| Ron | They say procrastination is the reason for my sorrow / I don't know what that big word means, I'll look it up tomorrow - Unknown | | |
| EllenG | "I no longer have bad days. I have good days and I have great days". - Lance Armstrong - "It's Not About The Bike" | | |
| Michael | It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process-- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion. Silken Laumann - Canadian Olympian who overcame injury to win a bronze and a silver medal in single sculls rowing in 1992 and 1996 respectively. | | |
| wrybosome | All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| wrybosome | Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. - Robert Heinlein | | |
| jonathanhoskins | Re Going Long in tri - There will be days when you know you could not meet the challenge... but a lifetime of knowing you have. | | |
| jonathanhoskins | "all you need to know about your character you'll learn in 26.2 miles" | | |
| tac | "some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you" | | |
| JaWaLav | What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.-George Berkeley | | |
| JaWaLav | "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."-Brooke Shields | | |
| Rosstafarian | Argue for your limitations and they become your limitations-Wayne Dyer | | |
| wrybosome | Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - A. Lincoln | | |
| wrybosome | Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson | | |
| wrybosome | Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West | | |
| wrybosome | To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Robert Louis Stevenson | | |
| EllenG | "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein | | |
| owie | "Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." Jim Rohn | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot." Jim Rohn | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either sucess or failure." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." Jim Rohn | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom. | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Each day you get better or worse. It's your choice." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Work harder and smarter." Byrd Baggett | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Do it, just don't talk about doing it." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "If you are a veteran, learn from the rookies." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Aim high. You normally hit what you aim for." | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Patience is a virtue. Don't give up!" | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "Success does not come easily. Are you willing to pay the price?" Unknown | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | "There is no replacement for effort." Unknown | | |
| tac | How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. | | |
| mikenhe | `Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people won`t feel insecure around you... And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.`...Nelson Mandella, 1994 | | |
| geoffs | We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."-unknown | | |
| crpadiem | "An adventure is never an adventure when it’s happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility." - Tim Cahill | | |
| rdugge | "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity' | | |
| Y-NOT-TRI | Success at the expense of family and friends is really failure." | | |
| Hogskin | "Thou shalt not whine." - my mom. | | |
| malvey | "It is not how old you are, but how you are old." | | |
| malvey | Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. | | |
| malvey | "There's been a change in plans - the meek shall inherit the moon." | | |
| JaWaLav | "Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?" Unknown | | |
| JaWaLav | "Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with the hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?" Unknown | | |
| JaWaLav | "If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like your wife told you to?" My Wife.:) | | |
| JaWaLav | The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - Franklin Jones | | |
| ford5683 | Tri's are like life; hard work, challenging, but the overall accomplishment is worth the effort. | | |
| EllenG | "Shoot for the moon, if you miss you'll still land on a star." | | |
| amber | "For better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory or defeat."-Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| coolspirit_20 | There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. | | |
| emlesnick | “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” | | |
| emlesnick | “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”-William Shakespeare | | |
| EllenG | "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." JFK | | |
| RafeOsha | I like hills because you can see the top. I know that sounds glib, but you know that the hill is not going to keep appearing; it's there and once you get to the top it's behind you, and you feel as though you have conquered something-Rob de Castella | | |
| dhlundblad | "Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little." Plutarch | | |
| dkolson | "The secret is to take your time in a hurry." Wyatt Earp | | |
| EllenG | I wish I was half the person that my dog thinks I am." --seen on bumper sticker | | |
| Irongirl | If you focus on result, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results
Jack Dixon
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| Irongirl | It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
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| Irongirl | 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit
of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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| Irongirl | The man who removes a mountain begins
by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
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| Irongirl | If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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| Irongirl | Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Roger Staubach
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| Irongirl | The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words; "I did not have time."
Franklin Field
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| Irongirl | The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Vincent Lombardi
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| Irongirl | The mind is the limit.
As long as the mind can envision the fact that you
can do something, you can do it-as long as you
really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| Irongirl | I can't change the direction of the wind.
But I can adjust my sails.
Unknown Author
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| Irongirl | Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese proverb
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| Irongirl | Life is the sum of all of your choices.
Albert Camus
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| Irongirl | Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.
Bill Cosby
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| Irongirl | You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres
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| Irongirl | We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
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| Irongirl | Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller
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| Irongirl | 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, keep moving.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| mikenhe | You don't get to choose how your going to die or when. You can only decide how your going to live" Joan Baez | | |
| mikenhe | "By three methods may we learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; second by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is bitterest." Confucius | | |
| EllenG | "If con is the opposite pro, is congress the opposite of progress?" --- my 13 year old son, working on his stand-up routine | | |
| meworac | "Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision." - Joe Tye | | |
| meworac | "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." - t.s. eliot | | |
| steve66 | A marathon in 20 miles of hope, followed by 6 miles of truth | | |
| cechastain | The good is ever the enemy of the best... Dr. Charles E. Diehl | | |
| langell | "If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize" - Muhammad Ali | | |
| Maine | If you Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail- Unknown | | |
| elvis | ...be passionate...or don't be at all... | | |
| Machiavelo | In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. (Orson Wells in the role of Harry Lime in the movie "The Third Man", 1949) | | |
| cloudnine | I don't care if it hurts, I want to have control. I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul. - Radiohead | | |
| meworac | What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. - Paul "Bear Bryant" | | |
| JayC | I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost | | |
| JayC | The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine | | |
| Gilligan | No brain, no pain | | |
| JayC | Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn | | |
| JayC | He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. Horace | | |
| scvb13 | NO WHINING! | | |
| cmatt | You can't expect to win. You have to just expect to control the things you can, which are your preparation and how hard you work out there... Andre Agassi | | |
| huskietns14 | The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi | | |
| huskietns14 | Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation. - Roger Staubach | | |
| huskietns14 | Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. - Roy L. Smith | | |
| ginger ninja | 'Let us run the race that is before us and never give up" Hebrews 12:1 | | |
| supplymtnbkr | Eat to live, dont' live to eat! author unknown | | |
| arturcampos | "the only easy day was yesterday" US Seals motto | | |
| arturcampos | "the pain in your legs won´t last forever, the memories will" | | |
| supplymtnbkr | If you fail to plan then you plan to fail! | | |
| supplymtnbkr | How many smiles can you associate with a sore bottom? | | |
| marty12550 | I did the thing I feared the most- excuse me while I cheer- for now I stand a stronger soul and all I have lost is fear | | |
| marty12550 | "I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed." (Author: Og Mandino from the ancient scroll marked III) | | |
| marty12550 | "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." -Marcus Aurelius | | |
| marty12550 | "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it"--William Durant, Founder of General Motors | | |
| marty12550 | "I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it." Pre | | |
| marty12550 | "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| marty12550 | "Pain is weakness leaving the body." | | |
| marty12550 | When those who live lives of quiet desperation dream of what might have been, they dream of us. | | |
| marty12550 | Twain: "20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones that you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | | |
| supplymtnbkr | No matter how hard you work; No matter how right you are; sometimes the dragon still wins! | | |
| LJSChicago | I eat, therefore, I run. | | |
| LJSChicago | If I can't be fast, I might as well be fashionable. | | |
| supplymtnbkr | Why worry about things you cannot control! | | |
| sjobrooke | "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act but a habit" - Aristotle | | |
| Serefina | "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Delirium | Your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words...but in every motion and joint of your body. -Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass" | | |
| Delirium | Man is what he eats. -Ludwig Feuerbach | | |
| Delirium | All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. -Kabir | | |
| Delirium | You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez. | | |
| Delirium | Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. -Gibran | | |
| bootygirl | "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." - Aristotle | | |
| Sharkie | "Biking is one of those things everyone loves as a kid, but once grown up forgets that fun feeling of wind in your face and freedom it provides..." - haris | | |
| sekhmet | "Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, fearless of unknown shores." -Walt Whitman | | |
| sekhmet | "Anything is possible, nothing is certain." -probably someone famous, but in the meantime I'm taking credit for it | | |
| pammy | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle | | |
| joeinco | I feel GOOD! -James Brown | | |
| greendemon5 | Drink water. Get plenty of sleep. Go like hell. | | |
| leesure | Better to be DFL than DNF | | |
| WLQ | If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem starts looking an awful lot like a nail! | | |
| David_Zen | "Nothing is worth it if you don't have to tri... the higher the stakes - the higher the sky!" — Prince | | |
| shepwad | "I am the engine that drives itself, and I choose the uphill climb."- Rush | | |
| terminator | Take Rest. A field that has rested gives a Beautiful Crop. | | |
| terminator | You must first be a believer if you want to be an achiever. | | |
| terminator | There isn't much thrill in success unless one has first been close to failure. | | |
| Ronald | Life shrinks or expands in porportion to one's courage --Anais Nin | | |
| madkat | Bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle! I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike! I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like!" -- Queen, Bicycle Race | | |
| madkat | Hard work may pay off eventually, but procrastination pays off immediately. | | |
| dolly | We must not only give what we have, we must also give what we are. - Joseph Mercier | | |
| dolly | Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. - author unknown | | |
| bootygirl | A body in motion leaves an impression, while a body on the couch leaves a dent. | | |
| bootygirl | Make an Impression, not a Depression. | | |
| phxlvr | "It's not how much you have, it's how much you enjoy" | | |
| phxlvr | "When it's dark enough, you can see the starts" | | |
| phxlvr | "You are the master of your fate. You are the captain of your soul." | | |
| sunblock | Egos are drawn to bigger egos -Ekhart Tolle, submitted by Nick (aka Sunblock) | | |
| sunblock | Action arising out of insight is more effective than action arising from negativity - Ekhart Tolle | | |
| sunblock | "Move" Lance Armstrong | | |
| sunblock | "This is not Disneyland, or Hollywood. I'll give you an example: I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else." Lance Armstrong | | |
| sunblock | The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf | | |
| Flyboy | "It's not the miles you put in, it's what you put into the miles" (Anonymous) | | |
| Flyboy | No...I'm not on steroids, but thanks for asking! | | |
| David_Zen | Sometimes you just have to force yourself to go against the grain and when you do, amazing things can happen. You may feel like you could almost fly. | | |
| supplymtnbkr | Just when you thought you were the big dog, someone brings in a bigger cat! | | |
| gus | Your either part of the steamroller or part of the pavement. | | |
| rotorgeek | Life is too short and dreams are to small | | |
| cal32 | If you have a CAN'T do attitude.......you WON'T | | |
| dai_bach | "Alea jacta est" - Julius Caesar. I'm sure we all know what he meant there | | |
| Eightman | Ernie Stautner, a Dallas Cowboys assistant coach, offered this definition of the mean streak in 1979 as an explanation of Randy "The Manster" White's brilliance: Say two boxers get together and want to spar. They both agree they won't hit each other. But then they start sparring and one guy sees an opening. Pow, he hits you with everything he's got. That's a mean streak [To me, it's good to have a mean streak during a triathlon - swim excluded]. | | |
| just-tri-it | "This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?"- Lance Armstrong | | |
| just-tri-it | "Giving up was never an option" - Lance Armstrong | | |
| just-tri-it | "When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing." - Lance Armstrong | | |
| Motivated | Ready, Fire, Aim...learn by doing. | | |
| Yellowk8t | Don't talk about what you're going to do; Do it and then talk about it. - me | | |
| absolute beginner | It is not the fall that matters but what you do with it. | | |
| sunblock | Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. - Vince Lombardi | | |
| haris | If you think you can or cannot, you're right. | | |
| Flyboy | "You can't win by backing off..." Daron Rahlves, US Ski Team | | |
| sfraleyiii | Work like Hellen B. Happy | | |
| arturcampos | "after you start training triathlon anything looks easier to accomplish" | | |
| rookie44 | "If you don't make any mistakes, you're not trying hard enough". Artie Shaw, Jazz Clarinetist. | | |
| dave77x | The race goes not to the swiftest, but to he who keeps on running | | |
| Motivated | In the 4.6billion years of earth's existence, every one of your ancestors had to survive long enough to reproduce so you could be here. They had to cheat death (by sickness, disease, injury, being eaten, or succumbing to any other terrible fate) long enough so they could continue the lineage. You come from a line of perfect survirors. Make the most of it! | | |
| Dobione | "OOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Macho Man Randy Savage | | |
| suzyqfromnz | It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained - Queen Elizabeth II | | |
| rookie44 | if life hands you a lemon...make a peanut butter samich! | | |
| supplymtnbkr | With every breath there is a brand new start! | | |
| evrunning | "The five S's of sports training are stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit, but the greatest of these is spirit" -- Ken Doherty | | |
| terminator | Don't pray for rain if you're going to complain about the mud. | | |
| sunblock | "...for he was in such agony of spirit that he broke into a sweat of blood, with great drops falling to the ground..." Luke 22:44 | | |
| just-tri-it | Alpe d'Huez 1999 "I could do this thing on a damn tricycle. It's not a problem" - Lance Armstrong | | |
| just-tri-it | "I know that I'm here today and I'm alive today and I've been blessed to have this life and this sport, and I want to win the 2004 Tour de France." - Lance Armstrong | | |
| 80n3j3573r | "There's a highway to the edge. Once a night you will drive yourself there. At the end of the road you will find the answers. At the end of the road you will drink the fear. " - Brody Dalle | | |
| redbullgt337 | "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift." Steve Prefontaine | | |
| redbullgt337 | "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding." Steve Prefontaine | | |
| luibh | Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. - 1 Corinthians 9:26-27 | | |
| ginger ninja | "its not how strong you are...it's how hard you train..."anonymous | | |
| luibh | One's self is the greatest competitor to defeat. | | |
| burnside | Do not Fear the winds of Adversity...: Remember:... A kite rises against the wind Rather Than with it | | |
| Dobione | "When you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself to the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| telebuck | "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." - Muhammad Ali | | |
| buttercup | "Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes...then he's a mile away and you have his shoes!" - Billy Connolly | | |
| buttercup | "That which does not kill you makes you stronger--or at least really, really pissed off" - Nietzche (and me) | | |
| buttercup | "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| buttercup | "All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensible, and bear the intolerable" - Kathleen Norris | | |
| buttercup | "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| buttercup | "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility" - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| ABBAgirl | "The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." | | |
| ABBAgirl | "If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide." - Lou Holtz | | |
| webguy | "Demand more from yourself than other people would expect!" Anthony Robbins | | |
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