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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 | 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 | | |
| 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 | | |
| 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. | | |
| IronGuinness | 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 | | |
| figue | "Your body must be disciplined like a child, calmly but forcefully. You are, in fact, reeducating your body and as the various areas are convinced that you are serious, they will begin to obey." —Richard Hittleman | | |
| madcow | Results happen when your motivation is pure | | |
| balke13 | "You miss 100 % of the shots you don't take" - The Great One, Wayne Gretzkey | | |
| FIN16 | "My roots are finally planted and now I have to concentrate on spreading my branches as far as I can in this lifetime and I plan on being as strong and reach as far as I can !" - FIN16 (i finally woke up!) | | |
| ODogg | "The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince." Vince Lombardi | | |
| glf33 | Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers. | | |
| peatmoss | Live like you ain't afraid to die. And don't be scared just enjoy your ride. - Chris LeDoux "The Ride" | | |
| marmadaddy | "The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... But for all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!" - M.C. Hershey | | |
| marmadaddy | "All glory comes from daring to begin." - Chris Jones | | |
| marmadaddy | "Don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.." - General George Patton | | |
| marmadaddy | "The value of life lies not in the length of the days, but in the use we make of them. " - Montaigne | | |
| mikecswat | " I may lose the battle, but as i cross the finish line I have won the War." - Mikecswat | | |
| the bear | "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot | | |
| cletus | "You've got it to do." - Louis L'Amour | | |
| Maine | "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi | | |
| JDUBYA | "If you want something, Go Get It!" Donovan Mcnab | | |
| dhlundblad | "And I tell you if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. If you are a brave man you will do nothing; if you are fearful you will do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery." Apsley Cherry-Garrard | | |
| David_Zen | Pain is temporary but the sweetness of winning your first tri lasts forever. | | |
| wardwarren | "Winners make sacrifices, not excuses." - Frank Leone | | |
| morpheus357 | "PAIN is TEMPORARY, PRIDE is FOREVER!" -UDT/SEAL Instructor | | |
| gengordon | To do is to be - Lennin | | |
| gengordon | To be is to do - Marx | | |
| gengordon | Do be do be do - Sinatra | | |
| buttercup | "Help me help you" - Jerry Mcguire | | |
| econway | and that my friends is why you can never, ever, ever think your bike is safe around small children with hammers - Sirvelo | | |
| buttercup | "You can do anything you set your mind to man" -- Eminem | | |
| buttercup | And if I only could I'd make a deal with God and get him to swap our places. Be running up that road, be running up that hill with no problems" -- Kate Bush | | |
| buttercup | "Learn to swim. I'll see you down in Arizona bay." -- Tool | | |
| FitMama | All great achievements require time. -Maya Angelou | | |
| FitMama | If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou | | |
| Ath | You can do anything for 15 minutes- FlyLady.net | | |
| ut_tri_465 | "Stagger onward rejoicing, marveling at the the fate that you are" scott | | |
| Ron | Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cigar in hand, favorite beverage in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming, 'WOO HOO, what a ride!' | | |
| Wookiee | A life lived without regret is a life not lived. | | |
| CindyK | "...it's all about perspective..." Lance Armstrong | | |
| gengordon | You keep using that word..I don't think it means what you think it means. - Princess Bride | | |
| Misogynist | My will is as strong as yours and my kingdom is as great. You have no power over me. | | |
| Wookiee | "Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is." - Catfish Hunter | | |
| shepwad | I train for pain. It is how I know how sweet life really is. | | |
| TJLINCOLN | Know your Enemy and Know Yourself- Sun Tzu | | |
| Maine | " If you Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail " Unknown | | |
| TJLINCOLN | He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill; our opponent is our helper, because it is only through resistance that we will gain strength - Edmund Burke | | |
| TJLINCOLN | And how much effort it takes to make things look effortless! Jackie O | | |
| PGoldberger | You can quite and they won't care, but you will always know. - an original Ironman | | |
| Tri-ing at 45 | A set definate objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way. John McDonald | | |
| madkat | "The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa (course record holder in the NYC marathon) | | |
| madkat | "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius | | |
| madkat | "Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible." Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar | | |
| fightingfish | Think or Thwim | | |
| fightingfish | Swimmers are like teabags. You don't know how strong they are until you put them in water. | | |
| fightingfish | Swimming isn't always about how good your abilities are, but your collection of swim caps. | | |
| runnrboy | "Life is a headlong rush into the unknown. You can hunker down and hope nothing hits you or you can stand tall, lean into the wind and shout, bring it on darlin'... and don't be stingy with the jalepenos!" -Red Spicer, RD, Palo Duro Trail Runs | | |
| WETJET | "The days not over 'till the tri is done." | | |
| littletrainer | "While hardwork may not kill you, it is perfectly capable of destroying your competition" -Unknown | | |
| markdills38 | "Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others actually stay awake and do them." Anonymous | | |
| lifesgreat | "If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got." | | |
| lifesgreat | To play it safe is not to play. | | |
| lifesgreat | It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at a manure pile and hit. | | |
| CindyK | "I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or I can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." anonymous | | |
| CindyK | Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. | | |
| figue | The only easy day was yesterday. -Author Unknown | | |
| murray723 | There's no pain on the podium | | |
| CindyK | "Start now, you succeed the moment you begin" | | |
| murray723 | Does BRICK stand for "Bike, Run,... it can kill!!" ? | | |
| Groovy | Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. - Erma Bombeck | | |
| peatmoss | There is no right way to do a wrong thing. (unknown) | | |
| uconntraxtar | In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra | | |
| uconntraxtar | In a world where everyone is getting bigger, faster, and stronger, if you stay the same, you are actually getting worse | | |
| uconntraxtar | Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better. | | |
| uconntraxtar | Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat. ~Bill Bowerman | | |
| Robin in AZ | Failure is not an option. Apollo 13 | | |
| uconntraxtar | Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie | | |
| uconntraxtar | I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. ~Thomas A. Edison | | |
| uconntraxtar | Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get. ~Homer Simpson | | |
| uconntraxtar | In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| trigurl123 | I'm not stupid...I'm willfully ignorant. | | |
| David_Zen | "If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| lifesgreat | Anything worth doing looks like a mess in the middle. | | |
| figue | Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. --Henry David Thoreau | | |
| SwmBkRn | "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan | | |
| Laerka | "You have two legs, so use them." My mum | | |
| bruceplunkett | " when the student is ready the teacher will appear" | | |
| Marko | Success in sport and life, is 99 percent hard work and 1 percent good luck. | | |
| Matteight | Make good habits and they will make you. -Parks Cousins | | |
| cray121 | Pay attention to what is on the road, not how long the road is, becasue you are. | | |
| Scottus | Get 'er Done.... | | |
| shornick | "There's no way around it: Endurance is a mark of consistency." - Alan Culpepper (U.S. Olympic Marathon Team) | | |
| bruceplunkett | " It's a great day for the race" " what race is that?" " The human race" | | |
| Triatleta | The dreams don't pursue you. You make up them. The job is incomplete. Creating starts is harder than crossing them. Cross your door and then, you just have to follow your path. | | |
| frstnlst | "When you're going through hell, keep on going." W. Churchill | | |
| jwiedmier | Today I gave the best I have, because what I kept I've lost forever. | | |
| Ozcanuk | Triathletes will tri anything once! | | |
| runnrboy | "I guess it comes down to a simple choice really. Get busy living or get busy dying!" -The Shawshank Redemption | | |
| cray121 | Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand- strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO- What A Ride! | | |
| zagagirl | Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle | | |
| zagagirl | The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. Joe Paterno | | |
| zagagirl | No one has ever drowned in sweat. Lou Holtz | | |
| marty12550 | Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go - T.S. Elliot | | |
| sunblock | Training and Racing mantra: "Attention: Here and Now. Attention: Here and Now." | | |
| sunblock | "You see, we're born, born, born...born to be alive..." -Patrick Hernandez | | |
| TJLINCOLN | The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. Juma Ikanga'a | | |
| Buck | "Losers quit when they're tired, winners quit when they've won" | | |
| Tri4life | "Dreams are never wrong." | | |
| CindyK | "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| uconntraxtar | Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart kid, and you’ll never go wrong. ~The Sandlot | | |
| SwmBkRn | I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. - Michael Jordan | | |
| SwmBkRn | Failure isn't trying and failing, Failure is failing to try! - Unknown | | |
| Banditt | Eat right, get lots of sleep, go like hell. | | |
| frstnlst | A setback is just a setup for a comeback. | | |
| CindyK | "Sleep when you're eighty!" ~ My old Navy roomate | | |
| La Rakusillian | Your health is your wealth | | |
| carisima | "Dance... like nobody's looking." * Random quote | | |
| malvey | "The first time circumstances get you down, you're a victim... after that you're a volunteer." | | |
| jryals | "Life's a Dance, Learn as you go" John Michael Montgomery | | |
| figue | Getting and Staying fit is a flippin life long science project! | | |
| FoolInTheRain | "I will run in the rain till I'm breathless, and when I'm breathless I'll run till I drop." Led Zep | | |
| FoolInTheRain | Don't be content with mediocrity - Marathoner Phil Reilly | | |
| FoolInTheRain | "Set the gear shift to the high gear of you soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control." phish | | |
| bparnold | "If you're dreaming about beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize."- Unknown | | |
| H13 | "You Can Do It!" - Rob Schneider as Townie in Water Boy | | |
| mattm | "If you don't train today somebody else will and tomorrow they will beat you" | | |
| ginger ninja | "The bigger engine you build, the faster you can go." - Michael Ricci | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." -Katherine Hepburn | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | "Change in all things is sweet." -Aristotle | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | The burden is equal to the horse's strength. | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | "There is no such thing as great talent without great will-power." -Balzac | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | "A true champion is not measured by the margin of his victory but by the attitude with which he takes on his challenges." -Joel Sampson, a challenged athlete | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed... Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle... When the sun comes up, you'd better be running. | | |
| Mrs.Adder720 | May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. | | |
| jsargevt | Could I have been anyone other than me? - Dave Matthews | | |
| jsargevt | Life is not a compromise. - Warren Haynes | | |
| trixie | If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly, -demotivators | | |
| ellismichael | Spirit first, technique second. - Gichin Funakoshi, founder of modern karate | | |
| pooh bear | Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. ~Author Unknown | | |
| greytkat | Strive to be at the top because the bottom is already crowded. ~Keith Davis | | |
| rcschonder | Pain is weakness leaving the body | | |
| drewb8 | "A Noble Spirit Enbiggens the Smallest Man" - Jebediah Springfield | | |
| Browe79 | little by little, one travels far. - J. R. R. Tolkien | | |
| johnm419 | who dares wins | | |
| Hudnick | "It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get" ~Arnold Palmer | | |
| PirateGirl | "Reach for the sky because tomorrow may never come." - Mike Ness | | |
| johnm419 | Keep a bad dog close by and the good dogs won't bite | | |
| TonyWhit | "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Fred Shero, NFL coach | | |
| TonyWhit | "Don't tell me how rocky the sea is. Just bring the ship in." - Lou Holtz | | |
| dcapalbo | There are 3 kinds of people in this world--Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. | | |
| Hudnick | The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. - Muhammad Ali | | |
| Hudnick | "This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything." -Scott Reed | | |
| GatorGirl22 | Shake and Bake! | | |
| GatorGirl22 | Train hard, but don't forget to have fun along the way! | | |
| bostic | Definition of work: Something to do in between BT posts, sleeping, training, and racing. | | |
| jknapman | "We have a saying around here: DFL (Dead Friggin' Last) is better than DNF (Did Not Finish) is better than DNS (Did Not Start)." - the bear | | |
| Delynn | Never give up!...Never ever give up! Jimmy Valvano | | |
| pooh bear | cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run - the boss | | |
| Spanner | Failure is not the end. It is the beginning. You have just learnt a valuable lesson. Be prepared to fail so you can start to win. | | |
| AmXtreme | Heavy Mettle! | | |
| xtreme215 | If you don't change direction you will get where you are going. | | |
| CRBondur | No Goal Means No Direction; No Direction Means No Hope; No Hope means No Motivation; No Motivation means No Desire. - Anon | | |
| element_16 | i am the fastest guy in the world | | |
| walterh | Courage is not the absense of fear, but the willingness to proceed in spite of it. - Ellen Hunnicutt | | |
| jdlake | The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln | | |
| jdlake | Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. - Bernadette Devlin | | |
| Daughter3 | "Find uncomfortable and stay there." -unknown | | |
| Akuma | I may not be tall, but im not short of courage. | | |
| madcow | 2.4 miles of work, 112 miles of hope and 26.2 miles of truth | | |
| rkreuser | "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.". - Henry David Thoreau | | |
| patunnar | "The faster I run, the quicker this will be over." | | |
| fyreman | There is no "i" in team, but there are 5 "i's" in Individual Brilliance | | |
| dragoman | Of all the victories, the victory over yourself is the first and the best - Plato | | |
| bsjracing | All men die, some without ever having lived.....Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart | | |
| KSMITH | "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou | | |
| Big Montana | "Man who says it cannot be done, should not disturb man who is doing." | | |
| Wookiee | There is nothing less important than the score at half time. | | |
| Torgo | Pain is weakness leaving the body | | |
| Darr | ..chance favors the prepared mind.... | | |
| daveskar | Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.-Frank Kafka, Diaries | | |
| LeCrac | Yes, it will hurt! So get over it! | | |
| bsjracing | Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,Do not go gentle into that good night-Dylan Thomas | | |
| vadiver | “It may be hard for an egg; to turn into a bird.; It would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly; while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present and you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” - C.S. Lewis | | |
| FoolInTheRain | "First you gotta get speed, demon speed! Speed's what we need, we need greasy fast speed!" Micky (from Rocky II) | | |
| pkingfl | "Don't give up, don't ever give up." Jim Valvano | | |
| HandsomePete | "90% of everything is crap" - Theodore Sturgeon | | |
| Spanner | keep riding fat boy | | |
| gborn1 | The only easy day was yesterday - Navy Seals | | |
| weds19 | i'd rather die while i'm living than live when i'm dead. - jimmy buffett | | |
| Christ | "Great spirits have always encoutered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein | | |
| gborn1 | Success is only temporary and failure is never permanent - Mike Ditka | | |
| M2Biker | Carpe Diem = sieze the day | | |
| roadpro | "Life is Hell... Hell is Hell." - Timothy Findley | | |
| madcow | "Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far." | | |
| fraggle | Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups... or me after a rest day. | | |
| sty | "...it's 90% mental -- the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra | | |
| hoops | It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt - Mark Twain | | |
| sty | "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra | | |
| bsjracing | Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw | | |
| rabkaman | "It's always too early to quit." — Norman Vincent Peale | | |
| rabkaman | "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." — Les Brown | | |
| rabkaman | "Health is the vital principle of bliss." — James Thomson | | |
| autumn | "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright | | |
| autumn | "Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia." - H. G. Wells | | |
| autumn | "The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." - Christopher Morley
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| autumn | "The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community." - Ann Strong | | |
| autumn | "Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live." - Mark Twain | | |
| jmf-tt | Over! Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" - Bluto (aka John Belushi, Animal House) | | |
| Abby | "One can never see, or not till long afterwards, why any one was selected for any job. And when one does, it is usually some reason that leaves not room for vanity. Certainly, it is never for what the man himself would have regarded as his chief qualifications." C.S. Lewis | | |
| CHR15 TREE | If we miss our goals, we learn that sometimes life has other ideas, and we learn to rebound and 'Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming' (- Dorie, in Finding Nemo). We learn to adjust our goals and not beat ourselves up. - Annabananamc, Beginner Triathlete | | |
| uberbeginner | It's amazing what a team can do when nobody cares who gets the credit. | | |
| jimtri | Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. - Hamilton Holt | | |
| sty | I have two goals for my first season: to not drown on the swim leg and to cross the finish line. That'll do for this year. | | |
| Abby | “We live on the ‘underside of God’s tapestry. (1 John 3: 2b) From this perspective, all we see is a disarray of multi-colored stitches, with no apparent rhythm or reason to its order. From the topside of the tapestry its appearance is drastically different. What looked to be a chaotic mess is now viewed as a carefully thought-out pattern of uniquely placed stitches, fashioned by the skilled hand of a Master weaver.” (1 Pe. 1: 6-7) | | |
| TheCecil | without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. | | |
| TheCecil | "Some people consider the marathon the ultimate endurance event. Triathletes consider it a cool down." | | |
| Hawkeye | "Anything worth doing is worth starting poorly." --G. K. Chesterton | | |
| ellismichael | "My life is my message." -- Mahatma Ghandi | | |
| AdventureBear | If you want it, you can have it, you just have to learn to reach out there and grab it. -Weezer | | |
| chop | Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them. -John Elliot, Jr. | | |
| chesriley | "Swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, run 26.2 miles, brag for the rest of your life." Ironman Co-Founder (John Collins) | | |
| Carl Sohn | "You can't think your way into a new way of living - you have to live your way into a new way of thinking." - Lady at the Front Desk of the Gym | | |
| rubichi | "Measurement owes its existence to Earth; Estimation of quantity to Measurement; Calculation to Estimation of quantity; Balancing of chances to Calculation; and Victory to Balancing of chances" ("The Art of War", Sun Tzu) | | |
| Gwendal | "If you want to change you're going to have to change." | | |
| terminator | Learning by experience often is painful - and the more it hurts, the more you learn. | | |
| terminator | When doubts and fears are growing, it's hard to keep on going from day to day not knowing just what the end will be. Take each day as you find it, and if things go wrong, don't mind it, for each day leaves behind it a chance to start anew. | | |
| terminator | By the yard it's hard, by the inch it's a cinch. | | |
| bunnislippers | "Now I'm getting old, I don't wear underwear, I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair" Jimmy Buffet | | |
| uconntraxtar | Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare to win. ~Overheard at the 1997 Boston Marathon | | |
| uconntraxtar | I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird | | |
| uconntraxtar | I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson | | |
| tboepple | Wouldn't it be sad if all you ever had was a granite epitaph that said 'I meant to'? - Brad Cotter | | |
| uconntraxtar | You haven't failed until you quit trying | | |
| uconntraxtar | In the long run the pessimist may be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip | | |
| uconntraxtar | Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| uconntraxtar | Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed. ~Booker T. Washington | | |
| uconntraxtar | The difference between winning and losing is luck. Just ask any loser. | | |
| uconntraxtar | The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin | | |
| figue | What I dream of is an art of balance. --Henri Matisse | | |
| figue | Safeguard the health both of body and soul. --Cleobulus | | |
| guvna2030 | Success is the best revenge. | | |
| kris | "The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration" - Babe Didrikson Zaharias | | |
| lucy black | Winning isnt everything, wanting to win is | | |
| sty | I want it bad enough, so I find the time. | | |
| fraggle | Confucius Say: Well done is better than well said. | | |
| miacopino | "Never, never, never quit." - Winston Churchill | | |
| mcobu | "It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great!" | | |
| javagrrl | Spread your arms, close your eyes and always trust your cape. (Guy Clark) | | |
| Antelope | “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.” – John Foster Dulles, former U.S. secretary of state | | |
| cobi | people succeed to the degree that they allow themselves to succeed | | |
| cobi | "If you are going to talk the talk, you had better be prepared to walk the walk" | | |
| cobi | "Actions define a man; words are like a fart in the wind" Mario Puzo | | |
| cobi | "You can't go back, but you can start today-now" | | |
| maddog62 | Say something stupid, like "I am going to do that Half Ironman race in 6 months!" or "I will do that Olympic race with next to no training". Say It, Believe It!! Now get out there and DO IT!!! Trust in yourself, when others don't. Prove yourself right!!! | | |
| Hawkeye | "For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is." --Proverbs 23:7 | | |
| trz | "Courage is very imporant. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." (Ruth Gordon, Quoted in "L'Officiel" in 1980) | | |
| trz | "What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk, in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!" (Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz") | | |
| autumn | "True cardio is opening up your heart to someone in need. True strength is being strong enough to say you are sorry. True flexibility is being able to bend even when things aren't going
your way. True body fat control is not eating so much so the hungry can eat one more meal." - Rod Raymond | | |
| jeubank | "Shall we go?" "Yes" For yes is all you ever need to say to begin a journey. Yes is what I said. And so we started walking. - Bill Richardson in After Hamelin | | |
| peternmary | Pain is Temporary, glory is forever. - Bonita New Zealand Ironman, on the road. | | |
| hlabove | When you're in pain, or feel too tired remember..."This, too, shall pass." | | |
| phouse23 | Greatness is defined by constance to purpose. | | |
| parrj | "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 | | |
| parrj | "Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." -Edward Forster | | |
| jds | "There ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk" Tom Waits | | |
| zakk | Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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 sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain | | |
| jknapman | "God only knows what kind of pain an athlete feels going under eight and a half hours in an Ironman. I can't imagine, because the majority of us have a different pain threshold, and when it hurts, we slow down. They're like high-bred animals that would run themselves to death" - John Duke, Publisher of Triathlete magazine | | |
| zakk | I love it when I hurt others. I mean, it hurts, but I like hurting the other guy more! - CAT 3 cyclist at my LBS | | |
| zakk | Ride Lots. - Eddie Merckx | | |
| fraggle | DFL > DNF >> DNS | | |
| David14 | In twenty years from now when your looking back at your life, do you want to remeber that great Survivor episode or the race you won? | | |
| OSUAlum94 | If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting - Dick Vermeil | | |
| OSUAlum94 | You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. | | |
| OSUAlum94 | It is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams | | |
| sara_smile | "Nothing tastes as good as Healthy feels"-unknown | | |
| sara_smile | "Obsessed is what the Lazy call the Dedicated"-unknown | | |
| fraggle | When was the last time you did something for the first time? | | |
| Swamp Lantern | 'You've got to give all you've got before you're worthy to succeed'-The Kingston Trio, "Desert Pete" | | |
| tim_edwards | The wind in my friend. When it is against me, it makes me stronger. When it is with me, it makes me faster. - the bear | | |
| waskelton | Mind over Muscle | | |
| De Cracker | Put me in coach, I'm ready to play! John Fogerty | | |
| Christiaan | The water is not cold, the water is not cold, the water is not cold.... | | |
| pkingfl | The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke | | |
| De Cracker | Elijah ran the ultimate triathlon. | | |
| sharonnagy5 | "Do something each day that 'scares' you...." Coach Troy Jacobsen, Triathlon coach | | |
| De Cracker | The only brownie you have to worry about is next one you're tempted to eat. de Cracker | | |
| trz | These are the precincts of pain, A goddess lives here, Her name is VICTORY! - printed on a wall, in a scene from the movie Spartan | | |
| trz | Muscle over Water, Muscle over Bike, Muscle over Road . . . Mind over Muscle - trz/waskelton | | |
| H13 | "Exercise is NOT a free ticket to eat" | | |
| hjmiii | The size of the universe is no more depressing than the size of a cow. -Oxford physicist David Deutsch | | |
| TriForrestTri | Endurance is just a muscle you can't see... How strong is your endurance? -Ben Gilmore | | |
| MudFish | "You never fail until, You stop tri-ing!!!"-MudFish et al | | |
| egent | Go for it---Life is not a dress rehearsal (seen on t-shirt on Broadway) | | |
| David_Zen | If you are not living life on the edge, you are taking up too much room! | | |
| justalittletri | "Be Patient. This pain will be useful to you one day." | | |
| billcarb | "Mars aint the kind of place to raise your kids... In fact, it's cold as hell"- B. Taupin | | |
| Writebrained | "You're only immortal for a limited time." - RUSH | | |
| jeubank | A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. -Maya Angelou | | |
| jeubank | You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -Evan Esar | | |
| jeubank | Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. -Thomas A. Edison | | |
| BellinghamSpence | Looking good!!! -countless spectators at Marathons telling you a lie at the 20 mile marker | | |
| jeubank | There are no great people in this world, there are only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.--? | | |
| Writebrained | "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil and shouting, ‘GERONIMO!’." | | |
| misscullen | what was the best thing before sliced bread? | | |
| Aesculapius | " TRI BIG !!! " - Matt Myers (keeps me motivated on the hard days) | | |
| andy townsend | When you see me dancing in the lights, the hard work has already been done - Mohammad Ali | | |
| hoff1732 | "If the furnace is hot enough, it will burn anything" - unknown | | |
| CitySky | Tri it. You'll like it. | | |
| Comet | "Normal people can just go out and swim laps and run 3 miles leisurely. But we're not normal." -me | | |
| zakk | "Just remember, whoever is behind you deserves to be there. You earned your position and you have to fight like hell to keep it. Anyone in front of you is only temporarily holding on to what should be yours.” -Justin Hall | | |
| hoff1732 | Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way | | |
| hoff1732 | "It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any waorse" - Pre | | |
| hoff1732 | Without failure, there is no success | | |
| KiteFlyer | “In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” -Thoreau | | |
| CHR15 TREE | The greater the suffering, the greater the pleasure | | |
| trilover | Sometimes..you gotta have a Chipotle burrito bowl with hot sauce on the side. | | |
| csgomez | Fortitudine vincimus (By endurance we conquer) - Shackleton Family Motto | | |
| nliedel | "Get off your couch and onto your freaking bike if you want to go faster" | | |
| nliedel | "If you want to do it then just do it. I will support you" Gene Liedel | | |
| nliedel | "It's not your bike, it's not your hydration, you don't spend enough time on the bike. Get your engine out the door and stop running your mouth making excuses" | | |
| nliedel | No one ever gained honor saying "I quit" | | |
| zakk | "This swim is about personal challenge. Whether you are dog or human, it's whatever you can achieve that counts." -- Bill Wygant, president of the South End Rowing Club, commenting on Jake the Dog's 72nd overall finish at the Alcatraz Invitational | | |
| csgomez | Eventually, if you want to average 19 MPH, you're gonna have to go at least 20 MPH. | | |
| Rio | "Real winning has nothing to do with beating someone else or crossing the finish line first or standing on top. Winning isn't anything external at all. It is an internal satisfaction, a deep inner sense of pride and joy." - Jamie Clarke | | |
| sbrnaz | The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch | | |
| haygosl | "Some proctologists use their thumb, but that doesn't that mean that its the only way to do it." | | |
| 1broadbroadMA | "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single busted GPS." (Wisdom for those who run "off-the-beaten-path," so to speak!) | | |
| uconntraxtar | Do your best? Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and f%#&ck the prom queen. ~Sean Connery in "The Rock" | | |
| CHR15 TREE | Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming - Dorie, in Finding Nemo | | |
| phoenixazul | Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees"- Fortune cookie | | |
| justalittletri | My best training *intentions* will not get me through race day. - Me :) | | |
| Ellie | Never give in. Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never. - Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| homeraway | No matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai | | |
| sbrnaz | Every man dies... not every man truly lives - William Wallace | | |
| watergirl | When I'm up with the sunshine, I want more than just a good time. I want more than just okay, more than just okay. -- Switchfoot "More Than Fine" | | |
| swynn | the heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept were upward toiling in the night. anon | | |
| cincifatman | You may see a chubby middle-aged man trying to turn back the clock. I see a man with a dream and the courage to make that dream come true. -- Marty H IRONMAN in training | | |
| jesseinaustin | You only see obsticles when you take your eye off the goal. | | |
| recon110 | People climb mountains not to reach the peak but to see what is beyond the horizon. Scouts out! | | |
| UTTriman | A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for -- Robert Browning | | |
| djwilliamson2 | The best time to plant a tree is 25 years ago. The second best time is today. | | |
| phoenixazul | "Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal" | | |
| AdventureBear | "It doesn't have to be fun to be fun" - Mark Twight, Mountaineer | | |
| phoenixazul | Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | |
| phoenixazul | I am a leaf in the wind, watch me soar. | | |
| sunblock | "When you lose, don't lose the lesson." - Dalai Lama | | |
| sunblock | 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 | | |
| Eightman | Whatever you can do, or dream you can, BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it" -Goethe | | |
| sunblock | In cycling the timetrial is commonly known as 'The Race of Truth'. | | |
| buttercup | "You'd better run for your life if you can little girl" -- The Beatles (insert teenage girls screaming here) | | |
| TJLINCOLN | Win without boasting, lose without excuses - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | | |
| TJLINCOLN | Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all. - Helen Keller | | |
| TJLINCOLN | Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese proverb | | |
| TJLINCOLN | If you are on the road to nowhere, find another road - Ashanti Proverb | | |
| TJLINCOLN | Second wind is only to a very small degree a question of breathing power. It is rather, the response of the vital forces to a will that refuses to heed their first grumbling protests - Stewart Edward White | | |
| KSMITH | Peace means loyalty to self...and loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech and act. | | |
| andrewgturnbull | Revenge is sweat | | |
| Bunks | If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, to serve you long after they are gone, and so hold on where there is nothing in you, except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" - Rudyard Kupling, 'If....' | | |
| TL2 | "Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking." Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| bsjracing | "I'm not much for idols, I've always worked to be the first me, the first Danica."-Indycar driver Danica Patrick | | |
| rubichi | Any situation, even it seems very unmanageable, is always capable of getting worse. (Spanish saying) | | |
| roxx | "It is not necessarily the best athlete who wins, it is the best prepared." John Davies - olympic medalist | | |
| rubichi | Carpe diem | | |
| nkpatel | "Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement." - Axel (Tazmania) | | |
| Heavyfist | “Impossible is nothing” Muhammad Ali | | |
| cobi | "In life we have either excuses or results" | | |
| cobi | "While others go play nintendo, I learn something new; work on my dreams. People say you're sacrificing your life. I say no I'm not, your sacrifycing yours" Robert Rodreguez | | |
| cobi | "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself" | | |
| waskelton | "Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other" - Joseph Addison | | |
| misscullen | If you rearrange the letters in SLAM, get rid of the A and substitute an I, add a few other letters and drop a few more, it spells BURRITO. amazing! | | |
| zakk | How many bikes should you have? Its Easy: X = number of bikes you currently own N = number of bikes you should own N = X + 1 | | |
| trigirl07 | "Keep the faith and believe in yourself even when everyone else doesn't". - Bobby Julich | | |
| concreteblonde | Pressure does things, pressure turns coal into diamonds. | | |
| concreteblonde | Your future is like a sparkling ocean before you- you can either drown, swim or build a boat to sail in, its all up to you. | | |
| concreteblonde | Running/cycling/swimming becomes a central part of what confidence I have got in life as a whole. | | |
| concreteblonde | Body maintenance is the best way to begin a long lasting and fruitful relationship with yourself. | | |
| concreteblonde | Visualise the body you want to have, visualise the way you want it to move. Direct your energy to these ends. | | |
| concreteblonde | When in doubt - trust your feelings-feelings tell you what you need to know. | | |
| concreteblonde | The best way to make a dream come true - is to wake up. | | |
| concreteblonde | Hope is the lifeblood of the heart, without it there is nothing only darkness | | |
| concreteblonde | Failures of the past are used as building blocks of the future. | | |
| buzzu411 | Carpe Beachem | | |
| old lady | "If you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right."-Henry Ford | | |
| Ellie | Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible - Shakespeare, Julius Caeser | | |
| rockologist1979 | if you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much room | | |
| Wookiee | Disappointment is inevitable, defeat is a choice. - Me | | |
| watergirl | I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure. - Eric Liddell (and someday me!) | | |
| jshutchi2 | Henry Ford “ Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you can’t you are right.” | | |
| cmando | "If it were easy, everyone would do it." -K2 Ski Company, Telemark Divsion | | |
| CBarnes | If not NOW then When. | | |
| tntexpres | When attempting a task that seems impossible, act as if it is only impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce - unknown | | |
| agentlipps009 | "I thought of it while riding my bicycle"-Albert Einstein (referring to the theory of relativity) | | |
| Jackson | A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.- Confucious | | |
| Comet | Running: cheaper than therapy | | |
| Ironbubba | "If you can't be good, be good at it." | | |
| lefty11 | There is no prestige in being what you are not. - Geoff Hassard | | |
| jknapman | "Phooey — Now I feel weird" -Neil Peart | | |
| TriathleteNut | "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." Vince Lombardi | | |
| reakmeyers | It's a Dream until you begin. Then it's a Goal. | | |
| cobi | stay young, stay hungry- Steve Jobs | | |
| runnrboy | 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 | | |
| UndeadZed | Remember what they say - "No matter where you go, there you are" | | |
| isis | Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ? Robert Browning | | |
| weds19 | Chuck Norris doesn't wear socks OR SHOES during triathlons! | | |
| phoenixazul | "The difference between hard and impossible is a thousand miles wide!"- "superhero" by Bane | | |
| JungleJim | Tri to Live - Live to Tri | | |
| sunblock | I hate losing at anything, whether it be cards, golf or whatever. - Lance Armstrong | | |
| sunblock | I become a happier man each time I suffer. - Lance Armstrong | | |
| tmwelshy | When life gives you lemons, make chocolate milk.... | | |
| lifesgreat | Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. | | |
| uconntraxtar | You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make. ~Gorden B. Hinkley | | |
| uconntraxtar | 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! ~Martin Luther King, Jr | | |
| uconntraxtar | If I had eyes in the back of my head, I could actually watch you lose! | | |
| weds19 | It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired. - Robert Strauss | | |
| uconntraxtar | You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough | | |
| Steve- | "If it ain't hard, it ain't fun." | | |
| Christ | "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford | | |
| FoolInTheRain | “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson | | |
| tupuppy | "That which you persist in doing becomes easier. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed, it's because the power to do so had increased." Unknown | | |
| rabkaman | "The part can never be well unless the whole is well." — Plato | | |
| rabkaman | "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." — Samuel Johnson | | |
| autumn | "Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?" - Flann O'Brien | | |
| autumn | "The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart." - Iris Murdoch | | |
| autumn | "Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling." - James E. Starrs | | |
| autumn | "Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." - John F. Kennedy
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| jdlake | Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? - Marian Wright Edelman | | |
| basscycle23 | That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. Navy SEALS | | |
| dcwade | "Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not." - George Sheehan | | |
| PhotoRue | "You can only go halfway into the darkest forest, then you are coming out the other side!" Chinese Proverb | | |
| De Cracker | Pain is good, extreme pain is extremely good, and agony is ecstacy. Marine Drill Instructor | | |
| Writebrained | "If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem." - Richard Bach | | |
| RachelRichardson | Dissapointments in life only making your accomplishments that much more fufilling! | | |
| hoff1732 | Triathlons are like a poker game. Only you know what you have! | | |
| TrishaK | "There's no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul" ella wheeler willcox | | |
| Brock Samson | "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" Steve Prefontaine | | |
| pbs68 | Don't worry about the mule goin blind just load the wagon | | |
| csinman | "The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment." -- Arlene Blum | | |
| Bergie | It is our will and not our strength that is being tried - Lyndon B. Johnson | | |
| CindyK | "We are the luckiest generation because we get to choose this for fun. We don't have to worry about dodging bullets or running through the jungle or desert...It's not life or death. We do it for fun. The best results you'll get is if you are enjoying it."~Chris Legh | | |
| Comet | Tri's keep me out of therapy | | |
| corinna1027 | Life is not supposed to be easy; however, that does not mean that it cannot be fulfilling. | | |
| Kriddle | In every race there is an invisible crowd of thousands who didnt have the courage to start. | | |
| sflister | Live it or live with it! - Firesign Theater | | |
| jknapman | "Have a drink. Get naked and party. Here's to rational activity and a blank canvass. Here's to us all." -Neil Peart | | |
| RafeOsha | "Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos." - Don Kardong, 1976 US Olympic Marathoner | | |
| staba07 | "...if it was easy everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great." Tom Hanks, "League of their Own" | | |
| CLLinIA | "I'm gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough." - Janis Joplin | | |
| npiech1 | There is no future, there is no past, my goal is to make the present last. I am in the now.---warrior mantra | | |
| marmadaddy | You can learn new "things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. " Barbara Sher | | |
| swipeys | Losers think about what they are going through. Winners think about where they are going to.--Jarred Britan | | |
| figue | Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. --Natalie Goldberg | | |
| figue | Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. --Lin Yutang | | |
| figue | Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. --Ovid | | |
| bruceplunkett | " luck is where preparation meets opportunity" | | |
| CindyK | "To be alive is to change" - my psych professor | | |
| Scottus | Endurance sports are 90% mental, the other half is physical (Inspired by Yogi Berra) | | |
| La Rakusillian | When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion - Abraham Lincoln 1860 | | |
| trixie | the downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.-Demotivators | | |
| fraggle | "I thought of that while riding my bike" -- Albert Einstein, on the theory of special relativity. | | |
| rubichi | "Liberty is one of the most precious gifts Heaven has bestowed upon man. No treasures the earth contains or the sea conceals can be compared to it" ("Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes) | | |
| cobi | Our bodies are our gardens- our wills our gardeners | | |
| Lar Dog | "There's magic in fighting battles beyond endurance. There's magic in fighting for a dream that nobody sees but you." Morgan Freeman-Million Dollar Baby | | |
| vonholt | The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you`re finished. | | |
| trz | "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, "You Learn by Living") | | |
| fb444 | A winner never quits, a quitter never wins | | |
| OSUAlum94 | The road never moves. The distance is constant. The pain is always there. The only thing that can change is you. | | |
| JohnnyKay | "Feel free to tell yourself that you are the greatest of all. It's not being cocky; it's being your own motivator. No one in the entire world will audition to play that role except for you." -Ubi Okebie | | |
| TriForrestTri | "Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years that they spend preparing for it." -T. Allan Armstrong | | |
| redbullgt337 | "Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative." Steve Prefontaine | | |
| marmadaddy | "I'm not a passenger. I am the ride" - Chris Smither | | |
| CindyK | "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Frank Herbert, Dune | | |
| H13 | "I know dat dhey have to swim in da wardder, dhay have ta bike, den dhay have to run, in order to win dat, you have to be very fit, you have to eat alot of good protein and all those things that they do, those athletic people, train hard, it's alot of training" - Beauty Shop Girl in 2004 Ironman Champioship TV Show | | |
| Akuma | They say sport is 20% physical, 80% mental, my friends say im completely mental so I should do just fine. | | |
| eclaire | what strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artisit. But couldn't everyones life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our own lives?-Michael Foucault | | |
| vortic | Simply because you can breathe, doesn't mean you're alive, or that you really live - Rise Against | | |
| Konabound | ".... because that's what life is - the six inches in front of your face!" - 'Al Pacino' - "Any Given Sunday" | | |
| ryanlc | The 6 P's: Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance - Randy Cross | | |
| flashchris | "I like to run he said with a smile, I think I'll go another mile." | | |
| ohiocort | We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. -Rudyard Kipling- | | |
| bsjracing | I just want to live while I'm alive....-Bon Jovi | | |
| ChrisM | "I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well" - Dave Matthews | | |
| will race for beer | Nobody's perfect, even Stevie Ray Vaughn missed a note now & then... | | |
| ChrisM | "Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are" 12 year old South African AIDS sufferer Nkosi Johnson | | |
| hjmiii | By your own efforts Waken yourself, watch yourself, And live joyfully. Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you. -from the Dhammapada | | |
| lifeisgood | "This life is more than just a read-through" - Red Hot Chili Peppers | | |
| H13 | "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving" - Lau Tzu | | |
| lifesgreat | "...with discipline comes knowledge, coordination, balance, muscle memory, confidence-things that make it possible to hit the bull's-eye three times in a row. But you must practice." -Carlos Santana | | |
| trixie | It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.-Demotivators | | |
| pkingfl | "Think big, start small, focus on results" - Unknown | | |
| Christ | Don't think about things you didn't do, focus on the things you are gonna do... | | |
| liquidmel | 'Bad company corrupts good character' | | |
| vadiver | “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” - Ronald Reagan | | |
| CrazeeCOLT | "Anyone who thinks my story is over, is sadly mistaken." ~Donald Trump when asked about his future | | |
| lucy black | Everybody wants to know what I am on. What am I on? I'm on my bike ... six hours a day. What are you on?' Lance Armstrong | | |
| Casper | "commitment without reflection is fanatacism in action...reflection without commitment is the paralysis of all action..." | | |
| greytkat | Strive to be at the top, the bottom is already crowded. Keith Davis | | |
| Christ | "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney | | |
| fraggle | Take it on! Eat it! Suck it up! Spit, swallow, choke or thrive! If you can do it, so can I. - Me. | | |
| sty | "I'll try anything twice" - gyanwn | | |
| sty | "Courage is found in unlikely places" - J.R.R. Tolkien | | |
| sty | "It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition" - Bono | | |
| rabkaman | "Men are born to succeed, not to fail." — Henry David Thoreau | | |
| rabkaman | "There is a great difference between knowing what to do and doing it." — Anonymous | | |
| rabkaman | "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." — Abraham Lincoln | | |
| rabkaman | "Only the healthy are free." — Epictetus | | |
| rabkaman | "I am increasingly aware that I know more than I can tell. Much of that knowledge comes from my body. It is the body more than anything else that contributes to my feelings of certainty, of self-control, of self-esteem." — George Sheehan | | |
| rabkaman | "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." — George E. Woodberry | | |
| rabkaman | "Most people live nowhere near their limits.... They give aging a bad name. Too many people entering their forties are performing at physiological levels more appropriate to somebody sixty years old." — George Sheehan | | |
| rabkaman | "First we form habits, then they form us." — Rob Gilbert | | |
| autumn | "When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." - H.G. Wells | | |
| jknapman | "If you follow every dream...You might...get...lost" -Neil Young, The painter | | |
| briand70669 | If there is anything to reincarnation I want to come back rich and ugly, this poor and good looking is for the birds!!! | | |
| jessg79 | To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. -- Golda Meir | | |
| Peraldo | I now know why I do tri ! God did not make me fast...he just gave me an immense capacity to suffer! | | |
| Abby | "...The legitimacy of (our) desires depends on the legitimacy of the object desired. All human beings are alike in seeking happiness. Where they differ is in the objects from which they seek it and the strength they have to reach the objects they desire." Os Guiness "The Call" | | |
| fraggle | Confucius Say: If you worry about yesterday's failures, today's successes will be few. | | |
| fraggle | All parts of the body which have a function if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. -Hippocrates | | |
| Mark G | How bad do you want it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming with that one thing on your mind? - Tim Mcgraw | | |
| Mark G | Run like you stole something - Lance Armstrong | | |
| dkolson | You snooze, You lose | | |
| Christ | The only dumb question is a question not asked | | |
| Christ | The only dumb question is a question not asked | | |
| Ontherun | It's not if you win or loose, but how badly you beat the guy in 2nd place. Unknown | | |
| Contango | "You can't have everything." - Gene E. Busker | | |
| Contango | It's an evolution, not a revolution. | | |
| Hawkeye | "It is easier to act your way into a new way of feeling than to feel your way into a new way of acting." --O. Hobart Mowrer | | |
| Stealth | "You got to have your ear to the ground, to hear the buffalo coming" - Lance Armstrong | | |
| badtdabone | I Think....therefore I swam, biked, and ran - badtdabone | | |
| mcobu | Play Like a Champion Today. - sign that hangs in the staircase leading to the Notre Dame tunnel. | | |
| kausnfxx | My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging -- Hank Aaron | | |
| kausnfxx | If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.-- Herschel Walker | | |
| kausnfxx | "What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was--in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it."--Lance Armstrong | | |
| kausnfxx | "Long slow distance makes long slow runners."--Jim Bush, coach at UCLA | | |
| bsjracing | You haven't died yet, so die or do something...... From American Flyers | | |
| Bonyx26 | What lies behind us and what lies before us area tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Oliver Wendell Holmes | | |
| cobi | One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life | | |
| cobi | If you want it you got it, believe in yourself- cause it's all just a game we just want to be loved. " Lenny Kravitz" | | |
| lifesgreat | Who you have been is not who you have to be. You are free to change your thinking. -From _Heft on Wheels_ by Mike Magnuson | | |
| wbnphd | It's always amazing to me how far beyond our first "No Way" we can actually go. | | |
| uberbeginner | I don't run because I love it, or even like it. I run because I can. - Me | | |
| AdventureBear | "It's not what we do once in awhile that shapes our lives, it's what we do consistently." -Anthony Robbins | | |
| fitby40 | "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth." - Bill Bryson | | |
| rich785d | "Love like you've never been hurt, Work like you don't need money, and Dance like no-one's watching." | | |
| Wolfy | "You can quit...but 20 years from now no one else will care, and you'll always know." Ironman Co-founder | | |
| bsjracing | It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. ...Kevin Spacey in American Beauty | | |
| lefty11 | "A life of unbroken success is not only impossible, it's probably not even good for you." - Lance Armstrong | | |
| littletrainer | "Whether you believe you can, or believe you can't, your right." | | |
| mhan22 | But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. (Albert Camus) | | |
| mhan22 | Live to the point of tears. (Albert Camus) | | |
| CLLinIA | "Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye." - Meridel Le Sueur | | |
| cobi | "The force is with you- force yourself' | | |
| cobi | FEAR i.e. false events appearing real | | |
| cobi | Don't wait tomorrow never comes- seize the moment | | |
| ellismichael | As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG. (Donald Trump) | | |
| mcobu | But I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost | | |
| eprpic | Faith is beleiving in something that you cannot see. | | |
| brperk | "He who endures, conquers."-greek philosopher | | |
| scorpius | "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it isn't long before every problem begins to look like a nail" Manslow | | |
| SwmBkRn | Some people consider the marathon the ultimate endurance event. We consider it a cool down. - SBR MultiSports Ad | | |
| madkat | "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiement. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up, again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble." Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Lwoodtri | You can't out run a bear! - I dont have to out run the bear, I just have to out run you! | | |
| hjmiii | Train yourself in this way: from higher to higher, from strength to strength we will strive, and we will come to realize unsurpassed freedom. -Buddha | | |
| trz | "Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions." (Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the UN, 7 December 1988) | | |
| trz | "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." (Erica Long, "The Artist as Housewife") | | |
| trz | "My darling girl, when are you going to understand that 'normal' isn't a virture? It rather denotes a lack of courage." (Stockard Channing as Frances Owens in "Practical Magic") | | |
| hlabove | "Always begin with the end in mind." | | |
| ElizabethD | If I am not for myself, who shall be for me? And if not now, WHEN? Rabbi Hillel | | |
| parrj | "Success is dependent upon the glands -- the sweat glands" (Zig Ziglar) | | |
| parrj | "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman | | |
| parrj | "I wanna see the kid in the net who wouldn't take the test." - Herb Brooks | | |
| parrj | "Listen, Lupus, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? Now get your butt out there and do the best you can." | | |
| zakk | 'Crazy' is a lazy person's word for the dedicated! | | |
| OSUAlum94 | The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing you have done your best and you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. - Howard Cosell | | |
| OSUAlum94 | It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts. - John Wooden | | |
| lifesgreat | Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we might oft win By fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare | | |
| Swamp Lantern | 'When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?'-Kahlil Gibran | | |
| Mimir98 | "Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not." - George Sheehan | | |
| De Cracker | The frog in the well will never know the immensity of the sky. | | |
| Writebrained | "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge | | |
| jeubank | "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -Joshua J. Marine | | |
| FatFerret | [Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul. - CS Lewis | | |
| hoff1732 | "When you take off, somewhere someone isn't. When you race him, he will win." | | |
| thegoddess | Run Forrest, run! | | |
| Everest | “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny things compared to what lies within us.” | | |
| Everest | “Pay no attention to what the critics say;no statue has ever been erected to a critic.” | | |
| edwino | Feels good to work so hard. - Southern Culture on The Skids from their song "Ditch Diggin'" | | |
| MountainSteve | "Inspiration is the fuel that drives our Dreams." | | |
| Mottyl | Get a bike. You will not regret it. If you live. -- Mark Twain | | |
| CBarnes | If not NOW then WHEN? If not YOU than WHO? | | |
| csgomez | Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul. - 'Invictus' W.E. Henley | | |
| nliedel | "The best long distance runners in the world, eat raw meat, run naked and sleep in the snow" Iditerod Dog Sled Race Saying | | |
| nliedel | "I would but" will not be carved on my tombstone. "She was not fast but she tried her damndest" will be. | | |
| ehurley007 | The turtle never progresses unless it's neck is out | | |
| Carl | Pain is just fear leaving your body | | |
| BellinghamSpence | In answer to his fathers question "What does Daddy do in the mountains?" "Daddy makes them suffer." Luke Armstrong | | |
| southwestmba | "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are!" -Buckaroo Bonzi | | |
| jamesreeves | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then find someone life gave vodka to... | | |
| xtreme215 | Humpty dumpty was a fence sitter and look what happened to him. | | |
| trz | "Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around." (Anna Quindlen in "The New York Times") | | |
| parrj | "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours." -Yoggi Berra | | |
| bambino | For some sports you need a ball, for triathlon you need 2 | | |
| Comet | "I drink to make other people more interesting." | | |
| kimj81 | "Cycling is a risky activity. It's just not as risky as sitting on the couch eating chips and drinking beer." -Ride_like_you_stole_it | | |
| DarM | Ignore the unsuportive spouse, you are the only person that needs confidence in yourself! | | |
| captantony | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. See, there is no Someday! | | |
| Downunderman | I've pulled a heartalage muscle!!! | | |
| concreteblonde | It is the mind that shapes the body. Direct the mind and the body will follow (Friedrich von schiller) | | |
| concreteblonde | Fear, fera doesn't get you anywhere it just saps your energy. | | |
| concreteblonde | Don't worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right. (Lee Child) | | |
| phoenixazul | "Do it because you love it"- Fortune cookie a day before the tri | | |
| sjgauge | "Life should NOT be a journey to the end with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" | | |
| emerald_mind | "...each one teach one" | | |
| joannh13 | "I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer". - Homer Simpson | | |
| cadreamer | Fall down 9 times, get up 10. | | |
| tividarquea | "come to the edge" he said, "we are afraid", they answered, "come to the edge" he said, they came, he pushed them and they flew | | |
| RWR | "Pain is temporary. Quitting is forever." | | |
| watergirl | Want to feel like a kid again? Get on your bike and go full speed down the tallest hill you can find, yelling "wheeeeeeeeeeeee" all the way down! And then do it again. | | |
| lt772000 | Get me hungry enough, and the possibilities are endless - - Jesuits | | |
| mscotthall | "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." | | |
| happy4ever | Your good days and your bad days all have sunsets! | | |
| CHR15 TREE | If our passions become a chore we are missing the bigger picture - marelize | | |
| Alexdaddy | "Suffer well" | | |
| DadtoMRB | Today's goal is always better the previous day’s accomplishments. | | |
| mollygidget | fate loves the fearless, don't crap out! | | |
| backerman | "you become what you set as your priotity" - Greenbrier YMCA Triathlon Club | | |
| backerman | "Quality not Quantity." - Mary Amabile | | |
| backerman | "If it was easy, everyone would do it." | | |
| backerman | "you don't have to race a triathlon to finish one." - Your wise old friend | | |
| agentlipps009 | "I thought of it while riding my bicycle"-Albert Einstein (referring to the theory of relativity) | | |
| uberbeginner | It's not always the bigger, faster, stronger. It's the one who thinks he can. | | |
| jknapman | "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!" | | |
| TriathleteNut | "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." Muhammad Ali | | |
| TriathleteNut | "If you can dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney | | |
| TriathleteNut | "Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it." Knute Rockne | | |
| javiereli | "Train hard, fight easy, win. Train easy, fight hard, die." - Chinese proverb | | |
| BCsprntr | the only real failure in life is the failure to TRI | | |
| sranney | Idiots get lucky; champions are consistent. | | |
| TriathleteNut | "Life is like a Triathlon. If you don't drown, you still have to get on the bike then kill yourself with the run." TN | | |
| cjbowman | from whom much is given, much is expected | | |
| try2tri | It's not how you place, but how you race! | | |
| isis | The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready. Thoreau | | |
| isis | Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered by your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with it's hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. Emerson | | |
| isis | God did not call on you to be a canary bird in a little cage, to hop up and down on 3 sticks within a space no larger than the cage. God calls you to be eagles, and to fly from sun to sun over continents. | | |
| cleatus_t | Up is Up and Down is Down but Sideways is Always Foward. Unknown | | |
| RafeOsha | Talk to me not of time and place; I owe I'm happy in the chase. ~Shakespeare | | |
| ovspmike | You can die skinny and hungry or fat and happy...I'm going for eternal bliss. | | |
| Itrithere4iam | The fear of death is worse than death itself | | |
| MsPiggy | People laugh when I tell them I am training for a marathon. I laugh when they tell me that they aren't training at all. | | |
| Bluejack | "With great power comes great responsibility." Stan Lee | | |
| marmadaddy | "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few" Shunryu Suzuki | | |
| marmadaddy | "A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life." Robin G. Collingwood | | |
| marmadaddy | “A good man is always a beginner” Marcus Aurelius | | |
| Biseman | "Fill your years with LIFE, not your life with YEARS" unknown | | |
| Hudnick | "Your first Ironman-Distance experience is not a race; it is a test of how much patience you are prepared to exercise so that you do not expire on the marathon." - Excerpt from Going Long | | |
| Hudnick | "Cycling is a blue-collar sport. You gotta do the miles." - Jonas Colting, Swedish Champion Triathlete | | |
| cobannero | There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice. | | |
| cobannero | Face your fears so you can live your dreams | | |
| jknapman | When you finish an Ironman, its like you suddenly have this card that sits in your back pocket, that sits with you for the rest of your life. That tells you that you can acheive so much more than you ever thought you could. | | |
| rollinsw | "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt | | |
| chop | "What does daddy do in the mountains?" --Lance Armstrong "Daddy makes them suffer." --Luke Armstrong | | |
| jam33 | "The Superior Man seeks within himself; the inferior man seeks within others"--Confucius | | |
| whitebread1 | "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. " - Pres. Calvin Coolidge | | |
| jknapman | "There are no failures of talent, only failures of character" -Anon | | |
| jknapman | "The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." -Jack London | | |
| jknapman | The best things in life aren't things. | | |
| nspring | The impossible just takes a little longer | | |
| FlamingButtocks | "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive." Mel Brooks | | |
| Cappy | “What you put in your mouth is the stuff the body uses to completely rebuild and replace each muscle cell every six months. Do you want your muscles made from potato chips, Twinkies, and pop?” – Joe Friel | | |
| splerph | The Pain won't last forever - but the memories will never faid - John Maclean | | |
| Viking59 | He who dares WINS | | |
| isis | Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art. uk | | |
| isis | Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. uk | | |
| isis | To endure is greater than to dare, to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness. Wm Thackeray | | |
| RafeOsha | Fly. Fall. Prepare for it all; and you can't go wrong if you just hang on. | | |
| jknapman | It's not about how well you do, but about how good you look! | | |
| Rmaldon240 | PERSISTENCE PREVAILS WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS. | | |
| Rmaldon240 | "When you're going through hell, keep going." Albert Einstein | | |
| So Fresh So Clean | As of 2005, the best 100m freestyle ever done was in training (47.6s). What are your workouts like? | | |
| PureGrrr | "Don't talk about it. Be about it." --Randy the Pteradactyl | | |
| PureGrrr | Great runners go to bed exhausted and wake up tired. | | |
| PureGrrr | I never consider any of my equipment broken in until I have at least bled on it. | | |
| madkat | The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ~Sloan Wilson | | |
| SwmBkRn | "I think (know) I can, I think (know) I can, I think (know) I can" - The Little Engine | | |
| jknapman | "It is always better to beg for forgivness than to ask permission." | | |
| XH2Oskier | "Be your own policeman" - Bobby Medina | | |
| marko2020 | The best things in life aren't things--my dad tells me this all the time :) | | |
| PureGrrr | "God gave you two legs and two lungs, but if you keep complaining, I'm going to take one of each from you." My old coach | | |
| PureGrrr | "I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more." -Jack from Fight Club | | |
| corich | If you want to improve, attack your weaknesses! | | |
| corich | "Who needs to think when your feet just go?" - Tom Tom Club | | |
| jennywren1 | "Winners make things happen. Losers let things happen." | | |
| TianJohns | "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there" Josh Billings | | |
| TianJohns | "Beyond the sky is the limit, and the beyond the sky is limitless" TianJohns | | |
| lcurfman | Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. The Apostle Paul to the Romans (Ch 5:3-4) NIV | | |
| sisepuede | Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat (fortune favors the brave) | | |
| JBrashear | "How much of human life is lost in waiting." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| Douglassj | "Always do what is right, not just what is best for you." | | |
| ryanlc | "There is only one road to true human greatness: through the school of hard knocks." Albert Einstein | | |
| ryanlc | "Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly." Socrates | | |
| TriathleteNut | “Live. More than your neighbors. Unleash yourself upon the world and go places. Go now. Giggle. No. Laugh. And bark at the moon like the wild dog that you are. Understand that this is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Your life. Face your fears and live your dreams and take it all in. Yes, every chance you get. Come close. And by all means, whatever you do, get it on film.” John Blais - 2005 Ironman with ALS (Time: 16:28:58) | | |
| TriathleteNut | “We go through the pain now so we don’t have to next time." Stephen Harris (24hr Fitness Trainer Glendale, CA) | | |
| Biseman | Be a fountain, not a drain..... | | |
| Tri2Hover | Drafting is for the weak... | | |
| mnorris | Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller | | |
| homan | 'If its not hurting, your not going fast enough' | | |
| Cando | You'd be surprised what can you do if you tri | | |
| schneck | "But if you never try, then you'll never know / Just what you're worth" ~Coldplay | | |
| Lunch $ victim | It only hurts if you let it... | | |
| ScottoNM | "90% of success is showing up" - Woody Allen | | |
| Fugazitri | If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to change your life run a marathon-Emile Zatopek | | |
| Trilife | It's the hard things in life that make us feel alive!! | | |
| IronGuinness | you can't run with the big dog's unless you get off the porch | | |
| stupidnickname | "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative or creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then . . . a whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | |
| McRoberts | Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way. USMC | | |
| mcvegan4life | It's not life that matters; it's the courage that we bring to it. | | |
| PureGrrr | I find comfort in knowing that if my friends and I are being chased by wild animals I'm not the one they're going to catch and eat. -ME | | |
| Shaved_Wookie | "I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not." -Abraham Lincoln | | |
| Biseman | Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. -- Gandhi | | |
| deweydog | "The ox is slow, but the earth is patient." | | |
| Vortex324 | "Its Swim, Bike, Run...NOT Swim, Bike, WALK!!!" | | |
| PureGrrr | It is not the light and the end of the tunnel that keeps us moving; it is the faith that there is an end when we enter the tunnel. | | |
| JohnDeere | "Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his own web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home. Still want to quit?" NousDefionsDoc | | |
| Nats | "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller | | |
| jkron | My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. -Peter Golkin | | |
| djnickwatt | Joy is not in things; it is in us. | | |
| djnickwatt | The only real failure in life is the failure to try. | | |
| kaufmanrob | The ultimate irony of life is that no one gets out alive. So what you waiting for? go live it | | |
| sstinchc | If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it | | |
| madkat | A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~Bill Emerson, "On Bicycling," Saturday Evening Post, 29 July 1967 | | |
| dkolson | "If I only could make a deal with God, get him to swap out places; be running up that road, running up that hill, with no problem" -kate bush | | |
| angie292 | "To get to the top you have to get off your bottom!" | | |
| sisepuede | If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there | | |
| marmadaddy | "Speed is a gift given to you by your parents. Endurance is a gift you give yourself." - Unknown | | |
| tbatt | You’ve trained for harder things. ~ Non triathlete friend | | |
| stephen strange | Focus till everything else becomes a blur. Rev. Stephen Strange | | |
| ScottoNM | When I run, my disability disappears - Rick Hoyt | | |
| dennis_mascardo | Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go more than others think is possible." | | |
| prospicient | "Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret"-Source? | | |
| maddog62 | I may not win, I may not place, but I will finish. For what is the point in stopping what you have started? You only cheat yourself. But worse than that, you have stolen from those that have supported you. Their sacrifices are greater than yours... to sacrifice for another is true sacrifice, not the selfish sacrifice of one for himself | | |
| autumn | "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!" - Henri Desgrange, L'Equipe article of 1902 | | |
| PureGrrr | "Sure, I could have stayed in the past. I could even have been king, but in my own way, I am king." -Ash in Army of Darkness | | |
| ptjeffs | If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything in it. And, which is more, you will be a man my son. -Rudyard Kipling | | |
| maverick_zh | "Sweat dries, blood clots, bones heal. Suck it up." | | |
| maverick_zh | "You did what you knew how to do...and when you knew better, you did better." ~~Maya Angelou | | |
| Tonkatruck182 | Embrace the Suck! | | |
| asaling | It's O.K. to FAIL...but QUITTING is NEVER acceptable! | | |
| P4ulUK | " if you didnt win, train harder " | | |
| trainerdave | Fitness is like the lottery, you can't win if you don't play. | | |
| slashwv | Practice doesn't make Perfect....Perfect practice makes Perfect | | |
| Mandi | "You are what you think." - Me! | | |
| yanksavsabama | "Pain is weakness leaving the body" UFC | | |
| maverick_zh | There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' - Andre Gide | | |
| cutnsew | Destiny is not to be waited for, it is to be achieved. | | |
| tstessney | If you do everything just right, no one's sure you've done anything at all. | | |
| autumn | "Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity." - Lord Charles Beresford | | |
| therectors | "If you wait too long to go, you'll be gone before you leave" - Anthony Hopkins in the movie " The Fastest Indian" | | |
| tstessney | Don't leave fun to look for fun. | | |
| cyberdo | Open your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water in to a bottle, it becomes the bottle, if you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Now water can, drip, or flow, or crash! Be water my friend | | |
| BellinghamSpence | He's really having to dig deeply into the suitcase of courage - Phil Liggett | | |
| trinosaur | "A runner absolutely must obtain the ability to train at 120-150 (or more) miles per week by the peak of the career in order to reach fruition. There are no exceptions to this." John Kellog | | |
| Iron_Gus | When the student is ready the teacher will appear. | | |
| NJVT | Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret!" | | |
| kvcycle | Must go faster! - Jurassic Park | | |
| gatlan | Start as fast as you can and increase | | |
| Iron_Gus | The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken GPS | | |
| redlv | Running won't kill you, you'll pass out first. | | |
| asaling | It's OK to FAIL...It's NEVER acceptable to QUIT! | | |
| jthomas05 | Everyone wants to win, few want to prepare. | | |
| wardta | Somewhere someone is training. When you race him, he will win. | | |
| markz | “You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.” | | |
| L_DUB_16 | "Perserverance is the hard work you do after you are tired from doing the hard work you have already done." | | |
| Nats | "Believe. Commit. Persevere. Repeat." (Lisa Lynam, "Triathlon for Women") | | |
| GoRAFTN | Don't hate the player...hate the game | | |
| wabco34 | Many of life's failures are those who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | | |
| Dad23 | A gram off the bike don't add metal to the man....Dad23 | | |
| Dad23 | "I don't know, but I been told, you never slow down, your never grow old" -Tom Petty | | |
| IronGuinness | "its not how many times Life Knocks you down, its How many times you get up " | | |
| DDTech | To finish first, you first have to finish | | |
| DDTech | If you don’t live on the edge, there won’t be room enough for you | | |
| calitriguy | Triathletes are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them | | |
| RunningJayhawk | You already have everything you need to be a long distance athlete. It's the mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream. | | |
| markz | "Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it" - Herb Brooks | | |
| Paddys5 | The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature, but by your approach. | | |
| janaleigh79 | That hill had an up and a down side... they both hurt equally. ---- ME | | |
| armydad | Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can!--unknown | | |
| armydad | Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker | | |
| IronGuinness | Courage is being scared and saddling up anyway " John Wayne " | | |
| Roaddoc | It wasn't such a good day to die! | | |
| jimbrenan | Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory | | |
| Robb | perfect is not real, practice makes progress. BGT | | |
| Iron_Gus | Unless you're throwing Hand Grenades near enough is not good enough! | | |
| zuroff08 | Whether you think you can or you can't, youre probably right. | | |
| armydad | There are only two ways to live life: as though nothing is a miracle or as though everythings is.-Albert Einstein | | |
| IronGuinness | "Live Strong, Go Long " | | |
| LowFatCheeze | "The best race pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die." | | |
| lechbarh | If your life is devoid of any pain, disappointment, or struggle--then you are probably devoid of a life----eric barnes | | |
| lovittc | "If you ain't first, you're last.... You know? You know what I'm talkin about?" - Ricky Bobby | | |
| Tortoise4tri | Tri, tri again. | | |
| dave99 | It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep | | |
| taylortat | “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” - Calvin Coolidge | | |
| LeeLola | "I can't give up now, my kids are watching" ~Me~ | | |
| carustol | "Truly fight, truly advance, faith is light, love is power" | | |
| tonyladd | "Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win." | | |
| tonyladd | "I think Western culture has it backwards. We equate comfort with happiness, and now we're so comfortable we're miserable. There's no struggle in our life, no sense of adventure. I've found that I'm never more alive than when I'm pushing and I'm in pain and I'm struggling for high achievement. In that struggle I think there's magic. Unless you're pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail you haven't pushed hard enough. If you look at successful people and happy people, they fail a lot, because they are constantly trying to go further..." | | |
| Mandi | "The first hour of waking is the rudder that guides the whole day." Henry Ward Beecher | | |
| Biseman | What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - as told by Billy Ed Hatfield "Walton and Johnson" | | |
| WaterDog66 | Ironman: Where our Reach Exceeds our Imagination | | |
| SpiritFire | What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say - RW Emerson | | |
| Slave Diver | The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all. -Madonna | | |
| PureGrrr | "You did the Ironman? So you're like a badass now, right?" -Guy at grocery store who saw my IM shirt | | |
| Tracey Shaw | "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision." ~ Muhammad Ali | | |
| Kneptune | "Tri? Tri? [sic] --There is no 'try,' only do. -Yoda | | |
| Iron_Gus | Ner enough is not good enough people. We are not throwing hand grenages! | | |
| misogi | It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare things are difficult. - Seneca | | |
| TriAya | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle | | |
| mike hall | There's definitely a special kind of camaraderie in stupidity. {Marmadaddy} | | |
| triguy22 | swim like you're flying, bike like you're gliding, run like you're winning. Tri 140.6. Bobby G | | |
| trinosaur | "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."--Stephen King | | |
| smeiser | I'd rather be a smart ass than a dumb ass | | |
| TriAya | Live on the edge--the view is best there. | | |
| TriAya | It's a small price to pay for quality immortality. (Me, on endurance athletics) | | |
| IronGuinness | Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. | | |
| IronGuinness | Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. | | |
| IronGuinness | “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” - Calvin Coolidge | | |
| triguy22 | Nobody can coach desire! Bill Bowerman | | |
| TriAya | "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." ~Henry David Thoreau | | |
| duck paxton | "Those who are afraid to 'tri' new things are doomed to a life of ignorance and imitation." ~ Rev. Brendan Lally, SJ | | |
| ditchdoc | The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. MLK | | |
| TriAya | Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered, and found no one there. | | |
| TriAya | No one can be a better you than you. | | |
| etknowles | "Never confuse a physical challenge with a barrier to your dreams" | | |
| bkc123 | Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. | | |
| tahrens | I bought a bike, it was cheaper than therapy. | | |
| bryank14 | "You must become the change you want to be" | | |
| pj2dmd | The last easy day was yesterday. | | |
| learning_writer | "Start now, just as you are." Pema Chodron | | |
| jse1155 | If you want to feel funky, feel free, but please don't spread that funk on me! (Pawpaw Gappa) | | |
| IronGuinness | "It is not how old you are, but how you are old." | | |
| D001 | "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes | | |
| sharp4850 | Real athletes do triathlons, everybody else just plays games! | | |
| Charlietri | "Don't let the sounds of your own wheels drive you crazy" Eagles | | |
| longmayourun | Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."-Lance Armstrong | | |
| SweetK | "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." Confucius | | |
| })i({RunnerGirl | I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett | | |
| zeroviz | What is Pain...Weakness leaving the Body | | |
| IronGuinness | Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ..Mother Teresa | | |
| mtnbiker | Go Hard or Go Home | | |
| jford2309 | You mean you set records in a pool? What if your nose plug didn't work? What if another swimmer crossed over into your lane? For the love of God you could've been killed. Ben Randall The Guardian | | |
| longmayourun | Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense | | |
| andyfjr | Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. | | |
| Mandi | You must become something before you do something. -- Elmer Towns | | |
| Mandi | "Go wike da wind" -- Grayson (3-years-old) | | |
| Iron_Gus | Often we don't realize how far we have come because we are so caught up in the process of achieving - Tony Robbins | | |
| sty | if you ain't riding her it don't matter how pretty she is | | |
| CHR15 TREE | Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible. - Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader - Double Amputee | | |
| longmayourun | It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. | | |
| longmayourun | Between stimulus and response there is a space; in that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response; in our response lies our growth - aim to widen the gap between stimulus and response! | | |
| sisepuede | Persistence beats resistance | | |
| Mandi | I've been accused of having head injuries many times. -- Bill | | |
| kevindaz | I run for when the robots rise up and attack | | |
| cubuff51 | "Thinking is the great enemy of perfection." | | |
| tkennedy500 | "At some point in everyone's life, they need to plant their feet, stand firm, and make a point about who they are and what they believe in" - From the Book "The Edge" | | |
| ScottoNM | "It is not the actual physical exertion that counts towards a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken." - Saint Francis Xavier | | |
| ScottoNM | It’s not what he doesn’t know that bothers me, it’s what he knows for sure that isn’t so – Will Rogers | | |
| ScottoNM | The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. – GK Chesterton | | |
| ScottoNM | "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem | | |
| jknapman | "Its not about how well you do, its about how much spandex you can cram on you body." | | |
| stephen strange | There are no shortcuts to 140.6. Rev. Stephen Strange | | |
| stephen strange | What you are to become you are now becoming. Coach Ron Finley | | |
| stephen strange | “You were moving on the way home. What got into you?” I just wanted to get home. Rev. Stev Strange | | |
| tntexpres | Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin agian - Henry Ford | | |
| tbatt | Results don't lie. | | |
| jmk-brooklyn | Everyone's got a plan until they get hit.--Mike Tyson | | |
| jmk-brooklyn | Luck is the residue of design--Casey Stengel | | |
| kaufmanrob | Its not that i dont love your mother Marge its just i wont be sad when she dies - Homer J Simpson | | |
| duh2001 | "Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it." - Steve Prefontaine | | |
| jkron | Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. - Luke Jackson | | |
| TriDDS | Dreams will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere! | | |
| IronGuinness | "Over the Hill, When did I Reach the Top" | | |
| maverick_zh | "If all else fails, stop using all else!" | | |
| maverick_zh | There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. | | |
| Tonkatruck182 | "A retriever loves the water; a lion loves the hunt; a hawk loves to soar; its what they were made for. Desire reveals destiny...destiny reveals design." -- Jon Eldridge | | |
| Rynamite | "We don't sleep to dream, we sleep to build stamina, energy to do our thing, get your camera..." -Fort Minor | | |
| trainerdave | If it's not hard work, it doesn't work. | | |
| slashwv | "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity" | | |
| maverick_zh | A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. - Patricia Neal | | |
| maverick_zh | I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud | | |
| maverick_zh | It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. - Philip Adams | | |
| maverick_zh | 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 nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| maverick_zh | What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Philips | | |
| maverick_zh | Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. - William Dement | | |
| maverick_zh | I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox | | |
| PintoRacer | I don't know but I've been told, if you never slow down, you never grow old! Tom Petty | | |
| Gaarryy | If your dream is big enough the facts don't matter | | |
| tstessney | You only live once, and if done right, once is enough. | | |
| Tortoise4tri | Go! | | |
| bradleyd3 | Shoot for the moon....if you miss, you'll still be among the stars | | |
| edeller | every day you are less of what you could be, and more of what you will be. eric deller | | |
| jknapman | "What are you? MOBILE! AGILE! HOSTILE! What is pain? FRENCH BREAD! What is fatigue? ARMY CLOTHES! Will you ever quit?! NO! WE WANT SOM MO'! WE WANT SOME MO'! WE WANT SOME MO'!!!" - Remember the Titans | | |
| Iron_Gus | Thoughts Become Things - Choose the good ones! | | |
| trinosaur | If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. Michaelangelo | | |
| laforand | Keep doing what you're doing, and you'll keep getting what you're getting. - unknown | | |
| autumn | "The negative attitude of cars is expressed in their very name, *automobiles*, which exalts the vehicle at the expense of the person transported by it. They are symbols of machismo, aggressivity and empty consumption. They've been perfected over the years, but they haven't evolved. They demand to be envied, feared, and lusted after. Most car designers waste space that should be devoted to passengers. Metal competes with flesh, and an object that should be our servant becomes our master. All that distance from humanity, all that self-importance..." - Phillipe Starck, 1996 | | |
| cyberdo | Life's battles don't always go to the faster or stronger man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can | | |
| trinosaur | "No more time to run. What with jobs, spouses, kids, television and the Internet, heck, most of us are lucky to find the time to take bathroom breaks. If that's the case for you and you don't have another half-hour to devote to running, my condolences. You'll never quite get to where you want to be, but such is modern life." Kevin Beck | | |
| IronGuinness | ' The only thing we have to fear is fear itself " Franklin D. Roosevelt Inaugural address , 4 March 1933 | | |
| IronGuinness | " I Have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat" Winston Churchill May 13 1940 | | |
| IronGuinness | "Somewhere in the world, someone is training consistently when you are not. When you race them, they will win. Tom Fleming | | |
| mikep | "100% of the shots not taken, don't go in" -Wayne G. | | |
| wardta | Opportunities are seldom perfect. But if you're not ready for them, they may not come again. Tiki Barber Cadillac ad | | |
| jthomas05 | "Never hesitate to choose the toughest road. Tempered steel is the sharpest and stays that way the longest." -Lee's Dad | | |
| L_DUB_16 | "I am ready for anything & equal to anything through Him who infuses inner strength in to me." (Philippians 4:13 AMP) | | |
| Nats | "We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?... Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." (Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love") | | |
| medic0020 | “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our Attitudes.” Charles Swindoll | | |
| wabco34 | The race is not always won by the swiftest, but by those who kept running. | | |
| PureGrrr | "You hear a lot of comments about, 'He makes it look easy,' or 'His face shows no effort....; Come look at my face in January when I'm trail-running in Texas and I'm hurting like a dog. It's an ugly face. But I'd rather have the face then and feel good here. It's called sacrifice." -Lance Armstrong | | |
| DDTech | Death before dishonour | | |
| armydad | Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.--Ernest Hemingway | | |
| HappyChica28 | Some people chase their dreams. Others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. - Unknown | | |
| Far_Side | It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius | | |
| kmcgregor | Fight On! | | |
| lechbarh | "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm" Winston Churchill | | |
| grnidone | The Strugglers know it will not be pretty. They know it is not a sure thing. They do not have the luxury of prediction or past performances or experience. This is not their aptitude. But this is their choice and their bold dream. | | |
| wagjef | "Don't worry, everyone is scared. It's when you stop being scared you need to worry because that is when you'll do something truly stupid." - my father to me before I went to Ft. Benning for jump school | | |
| carustol | "You're bored 'cause you're boring!!!" D. Johnson- law school prof. | | |
| WaterDog66 | The Finish Line: Where our Grasp Exceeds our Reach | | |
| freemanjoe6 | "Either run toward a dream or run from a nightmare. Either way RUN" Robert Kummer | | |
| Shrimper07 | Why? Because its there. | | |
| SpiritFire | "you'll have to send the wrecking crew after me, I can't walk right" | | |
| DeValera | "To not take a risk - is a risk in itself" - Kiki Delaney | | |
| csbabich | "If you can't tie good knots, tie lots of 'em" | | |
| Steve in IL | "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller | | |
| Steve in IL | "It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit." - George Sheehan | | |
| marmadaddy | "So go ahead, tell me I can't do something. Underestimate me. Think to yourselves that I won't do it. Tell me that I can't do it. But, put your bib on and get your knife and fork ready because there's a big fat plate of crow coming your way. Do you want some barbecue sauce with that?" BT's own Hawkeye | | |
| IronGuinness | When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. | | |
| wardoatri | Always remember the big picture and train with that in sight. | | |
| evanscd_7 | The mind always fails first, not the body. The trick is to make your mind work for you not against you. | | |
| pseely | "Pain is only weakness leaving the body"... | | |
| Gilligan | "A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore | | |
| IronGuinness | "It's not the years in life, it's the life in the years." | | |
| IronGuinness | "Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain! " Captain Kirk | | |
| Charlietri | "Stop Whining.....take the hand you were dealt and play it boy! | | |
| mbrandon66 | Where are you? | | |
| TriAya | This is the true joy in life--being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; 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 | | |
| stephen strange | You can not be you, if you are who everyone else wants you to be. Stephen Strange | | |
| longmayourun | Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. | | |
| longmayourun | We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee | | |
| IronGuinness | Over the Hill ? When did I reach the Top ? | | |
| leopard8996 | If there's magic in fighting battles beyond endurance, it's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you. - Million Dollar Baby | | |
| mga27 | "What would you attempt to do if you knew that you could not fail?" - unknown | | |
| lmplaw | Here's to anyone who never quits when things got hard; You'll never let them say you'll never get that far - Superchick | | |
| meterrunner | A body in Motion > Stays in Motion | | |
| DDTech | Never be to open minded, your brain might fall out | | |
| yellowhairdwarrior | "COURAGE DOESN'T ALWAYS ROAR... SOMETIMES COURAGE IS THE QUIET VOICE AT THE END OF THE DAY SAYING, I WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW" Mary anne Radmacher | | |
| wieczynski | Freakishly Strong--Brenda Donato | | |
| lechbarh | Life is not about how quick you can run, how fast you can bike, or how far you can swim---it's about how well you can bounce | | |
| TexasMPGal | "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." GEN Douglas McArthur | | |
| SpiritFire | what humanity needs, nature answers with whispers | | |
| Shrimper07 | "Don't stop me now because I'm having a good time, I dont wanna stop at all" Freddie Mercury | | |
| hutsomania | Live like a champion! | | |
| TriBabe2006 | "You know the best thing about pain is, it lets you know you're not DEAD yet" Viggo Mortensen, G.I. Jane | | |
| IronGuinness | The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. "Isak Dinesen | | |
| bkc123 | Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. | | |
| Bopper | "I don't like running, but love that I've run." - SpiritFire | | |
| triguy22 | Don't just be an athlete be a TRIATHLETE!!!!! Bobby G | | |
| IRONVIKING | What you read, watch, and listen to daily will greatly determine who and what you will become. | | |
| Sherpa3 | "Don't take life too seriously because there is no way you can come out of it alive." | | |
| smdeur | Failure is not a problem......not trying.....that is the problem | | |
| lfrattini | You know, when I was a teacher, I tried to convince my students that if they had curiosity, pride, and work ethic, they could do anything that they wanted to do. And, they could define success on their own terms. You have these qualities.~~~my Dad, March 6, 2008 | | |
| KenD | Yes. | | |
| KenD | I CAN. | | |
| longmayourun | The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed | | |
| longmayourun | It is not how you are treated that defines your character- It is how you react to how you are treated that defines YOUR character | | |
| longmayourun | If an hour spent today improves the quality of the next 24 hours, that is an hour well spent | | |
| velasqu7 | Good enough is the enemy of Great.... | | |
| mlockett | "Ride like you stole it!!!" | | |
| ThomPear | Triathlons are like grad school: During a race you push yourself to start, and you push yourself to keep up. Then there is a big push at the end of the race. In graduate school you push yourself to get started, push yourself to keep up during the semester, and there is a big push during finals week. | | |
| tri-dg | when you get to the fork in the road take it... yogi berra | | |
| tasr | "It pays to be a winner" -- US Navy SEAL's | | |
| docballer | IN IT TO THE FINISH!! | | |
| tlddwd | Swing hard incase you hit it | | |
| CrapDogg | I'm just doing this for the free T-Shirt. | | |
| joecool | My form is good. My legs are strong. My lungs are huge. | | |
| bobby1golf | Can't Never Did A Damn Thing | | |
| Bodazoffa84 | Confucious once say, don't go to front of swim pack if not prepared to get ransack. | | |
| ggwellness | You never know until you tri! | | |
| gremlin327 | You may out run, bike or swim me, but you WILL NOT out work me... ps - you won't out bike me!!! | | |
| RDub in Kona | Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. - James Cook | | |
| RDub in Kona | For every one of you, there are millions who dare not to dream such a grand adventure for their lives - Mark Allen | | |
| Joe Runner | I run till it hurts, till my head starts pounding, my legs starte burning, and my stomache starts churning. Then.....I turn around and run home | | |
| clwjr28 | Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe … it can achieve!! | | |
| kumuka | Unless you test yourself, you stagnate by Mark Allen (6 time world champion) | | |
| daveo1101 | "Throw up on your own time" - Bill Parcells | | |
| longmayourun | What you get by reaching your destination is not as important as what you become by reaching your destination” ~Dr. Robert Anthony | | |
| Skywashed | No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
| TdG717 | We either make ourselved happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castendada | | |
| TdG717 | God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. - Swedish proverb | | |
| TdG717 | To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -Gandhi | | |
| Skywashed | However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -Winston Churchill | | |
| soosh | "Can't never could" - my mom | | |
| PureGrrr | What is my inspiration? I am my inspiration: my blistered toes at the end of a rainy marathon, my bloodied shoulder from a bike wreck on a ride that I still finished, knowing that I've done things that others only dream. | | |
| Phitau21 | "Everywhere you go. There you are." | | |
| rufus81 | "There is a madness to my method". -my dad | | |
| Invigilator | "Suck it up. This is your work" -Invigilator | | |
| Invigilator | "You have to take your own naps" -Jay Wiek | | |
| jaxbamf73 | Amateurs do it until they get it right..... Professionals do it until they cannot get it wrong | | |
| leah.gietzen | If you really want something you'll do anything to get it... if not you'll make an excuse | | |
| BellinghamSpence | Have a little faith baby, have a little faith - Oddball | | |
| ditchdoc | The Juice Is Woth The Squeeze...Forrest Griffin | | |
| Nats | "The water is your friend... You don't have to fight with the water, just share the same spirit as the water and it will help you move." - Alexandr Popov | | |
| sumgolfer | "you are what you eat, what else could you be." | | |
| Nats | "When you begin to feel overwhelmed by triathlon life, remind yourself of the basics of the sport. Training should be challenging and enjoyable. The people should be interesting and fun. Races should be difficult and rewarding. Jettison the excess baggage of triathlon and remember that triathlon is made up of three events that you loved to do as a child, and you are now fortunate enough to "play" again. Focusing on the simplicity of the sport enables you to regain your motivation and confidence, relax, and reconnect with what attracted you to triathlon in the first place." - Jim Taylor and Terri Schneider, "The Triathlete's Guide to Mental Training" | | |
| sumgolfer | Some see the glass as half-full, others see the glass as half-empty, I see the glass as too big. | | |
| maverick_zh | Everyone is an athlete. But some of us are training, and some of us are not." --Dr. George Sheehan, runner/writer/philosopher | | |
| leah.gietzen | Life is like a brownie... the more you think about it the less you enjoy it... | | |
| leah.gietzen | A goal without a plan is just a wish... | | |
| TriBabe2006 | "Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of Victory"..General George S Patton | | |
| sumgolfer | "Because running fast is more fun than running slow" - Frank Shorter | | |
| sumgolfer | Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. - Knute Rockne | | |
| sumgolfer | "If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer." Yogi Berra | | |
| abenton | Friends are like fudge...they are all sweet with a few nuts :)! | | |
| abenton | The loser is not the person who finishes last, but the person who doesn't try... | | |
| faithandd | We will either find a way, or make one - Hannibal | | |
| Diesel | Quality vs Quantity, unless you aim for Quality in Quantity | | |
| sumgolfer | "You can always become better." Tiger Woods | | |
| Belle2805 | Let's be standouts in a world of wannabes- 2006 UPS Calendar | | |
| Belle2805 | Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly- proverb | | |
| bradleyd3 | If you're a triathlete, no explination is necessary.....if your not a triathlete, no explination is possible | | |
| TriAya | Exercise can give a person self-confidence. Physical fitness makes even a hopeless tomorrow seem brighter than it is. --Pramoedya Ananta Toer, written while he was a political prisoner on a harsh, remote island with no hope of release | | |
| Soul22Runner | "I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." -Mahatma Gandhi | | |
| jaxbamf73 | If I were a dinosaur, they'd call me Badassasaurus! | | |
| jaxbamf73 | The failures of my past are the stepping stones to the successes of my future. God, please let me live long enough to reach the top! | | |
| JenniferP | "You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf." Jon Kabat-Zin | | |
| JLChicago | "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anais Nin | | |
| JLChicago | "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow." | | |
| JLChicago | "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." — Anonymous | | |
| JLChicago | " We become what we think about all day long." — Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
| JLChicago | "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." — Erich Fromm | | |
| JLChicago | "On the other side of fear is freedom." - Jamie Clark, Climber | | |
| JLChicago | "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." - Sophia Loren | | |
| JLChicago | "No one ever expects the Spanish inquisition." - Monty Python | | |
| Ubergopher | "Do you think when an animals is being chased by soemthing when it gets a tired it stops. Hell no. Be that dumb animal when you run and don't stop until you've crossed the finish line." My cross-country coach in high school | | |
| ray6foot7 | Everyday above the ground is a good day. | | |
| MartS | To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. - Peter McWilliams | | |
| Mandi | "...I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy..." -- Marie Curie | | |
| Mandi | "None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime." -- Gail Godwin | | |
| Mandi | "The distance is nothing; it is ony the first step that is difficult." -- Marie Anne Du Deffand | | |
| Mandi | "First thoughts have tremendous energy..." -- Natalie Goldberg | | |
| KenD | I can. | | |
| KenD | Exercise is for people who can't deal with drugs & alcohol. | | |
| JoeR | "You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams" -- Dara Torres | | |
| reconbyfire | “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” ~Buddha | | |
| reconbyfire | “Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself”~Gandhi | | |
| KenD | Never Give Up. Never Surrender. - Galaxy Quest | | |
| Andrew1801 | You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone." - Percy Cerutty | | |
| SmBkRn450 | "What is it? A different way of seeing things? An obsession with form, technique, and precision? Is it power, pure and simple? What is it that makes a champion? Maybe, it's just the absolute refusal to be anything but." | | |
| SmBkRn450 | "Ride like you stole it." | | |
| SmBkRn450 | "Pain is temporary, quitting is forever." | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | "More than at any time in history, mankind is at a crossroads. One path leads to dispair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. - Adlai E. Stevenson | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | When the going gets tough, the tough get going! | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | Are you working hard, or hardly working? | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton | | |
| DieuEtMonDroit | "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - George S. Patton | | |
| Chaddsgirl | The chief cause of dissapointment and failure is trading what you want the most for what you want at the moment. | | |
| Syaotblh | Live to ride and ride to live | | |
| MelissaE | Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. | | |
| MelissaE | Significant results require significant effort. | | |
| MelissaE | If you want to look like one, you have to train like one. | | |
| MelissaE | The sign on the door to success says "PUSH" | | |
| jaxbamf73 | It's not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit~ Rocky Balboa | | |
| TriAya | A door, cracked the slightest bit, makes all the difference between open and closed, darkness and light, a barrier versus the beginning of a journey. | | |
| lindseyg | You can be a cheerleader, or be one of the people that they're cheering for... - Dad to daughter beginning high school | | |
| pga_mike | Good things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~ A. Lincoln | | |
| jcor3 | Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Strong and content, I travel the open road ~ Walt Whitman | | |
| swimmer42553 | "Made it Ma! Top of the world!" Cody Jarrett, White Heat | | |
| Bone Head | "Even if you fall on your face, you are headed in the right direction." - Me | | |
| bigfella3 | "Kick her in the guts, Trev" - Fred Dagg | | |
| jabraunski | Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. | | |
| hutsomania | Live like a champion. | | |
| jaxbamf73 | perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim~Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. | | |
| tactical_response | nothing great ever comes without risk | | |
| PureGrrr | Slow and steady gets your ass kicked. | | |
| vnewberry | The legs feed the wolf, boys. The legs feed the wolf. ~Herb Brooks~ | | |
| TriMeRMW | you either ran today, or you didnt. its simple | | |
| Jens | You can’t fear pain. Pain is to be expected. It is not a bad or negative thing. You almost need to embrace it, and then learn to deal with the feeling. - Chrissie Wellington | | |
| jaxbamf73 | Nothing changes if nothing changes. | | |
| triguysupporter | In the final mile some dreams are made while others are lost. It's the voice inside your head telling you to just keep running. Just a little further. Just one more mile. | | |
| mountainbiker | The difference between genius and stupidity is, genius has its limits! | | |
| mountainbiker | The only fear I know is failure! | | |
| xcrunner2010 | If you don't have goals, you can never achieve them | | |
| busfieldc | Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel. Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself | | |
| jaxbamf73 | I'm here to kick a$$ and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum! | | |
| marmadaddy | No tears. No fear. No excuses. No BS. It wasn't yesterday but I decided what my future holds. - trihardathena | | |
| TrishM | "If you're over 40 and you get up in the morning and nothing hurts, you must be dead...So take all those aches and pains as a sign of joy, living'. Yo-Yo Ma | | |
| wipate | "Ambition outweighs talent, ability, and skill; because without it the others simply won't matter." | | |
| IronGuinness | "Life isn't about how to survive the storm,but how to dance in the rain.'Never regret anything that made you smile." | | |
| RedBaron84MN | What one man can do, another can do. - Anthony Hopkins in The Edge | | |
| RedBaron84MN | You will be known by the tracks you leave behind. -Dakota Proverb | | |
| jaxbamf73 | I do today what you won't so I can do tomorrow what you can't. | | |
| sty | It might be the angle of your saddle, but it could be the angle of your dangle | | |
| sty | I keep doing this so that I will be able to challenge my grandson to a footrace when he turns 18, and I want to be able to turn and see the look on his face as I kick his a$$. Seriously. | | |
| jerlow | There is no better feeling than having run your best race ever and knowing exactly why. | | |
| southwestmba | Things are only impossible until they are not - my fortune cookie the night I signed up for IM UK | | |
| Moonman13 | Doubt is the seed of failure | | |
| jaxbamf73 | Only when the tide goes out is it clear who was swimming naked!~Warren Buffett | | |
| Diesel | Wake up and live. | | |
| generalee2010 | 'Can't is 99% 'Don't want to'" - Matt Cook | | |
| goran007 | ''Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors, while one moved about freely - in which the muscles are not celebrating a feast too.'' - Nietzsche | | |
| hrose77 | The reward of victory far exceeds the pain of perseverance. | | |
| reid15 | "There is nothing more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up. And, I might add, the victory of one who will not." -George Sheehan | | |
| tlstacy | "Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman | | |
| jaxbamf73 | He who stops being better stops being good. -Oliver Cromwell | | |
| Berry2512 | "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." Maya Angelou | | |
| Berry2512 | "When you come to a fork in the road...... Take it" Yogi Berra | | |
| jpkelley | "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do" Henry Ford | | |
| Cashmere_inactive | "There will never be a day when we won't need dedication, discipline, energy, and the feeling that we can change things for the better." | | |
| the_QMC | Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect | | |
| the_QMC | All you need is intestinal fortitude | | |
| reid15 | "A man who wants to do something will find a way. A man who doesn't will find an excuse." Stephen Dooley, Jr. | | |
| bzvbtc | "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" For Ironman comp. | | |
| triguy22 | You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt | | |
| triguy22 | No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction” Charles Kendall Adams | | |
| triguy22 | A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits Richard Nixon | | |
| TrevorC | All it’s going to take is everything that you have | | |
| peewee | Sometimes you have to learn to hurt! Jim Cole | | |
| tkd.teacher | The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. S. Prefontaine | | |
| The Padre | Do it for the dogs! | | |
| buno | "I give 98%, I use the other 2% to blink, sweat and breath." | | |
| Dbl Lung Txt Ironman | Do Not Fear Death. Fear the Half-Lived Life. | | |
| Dbl Lung Txt Ironman | Do Not Fear Death. Fear the Half-Lived Life. | | |
| skooger | A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -William Shedd | | |
| lap4567@aol.com | Impossible, thats just an opinion! | | |
| lap4567@aol.com | Be ready to sacrifice who you are; to be who you want to be! | | |
| lap4567@aol.com | Satisfaction is your advisary!! | | |
| BigDH | The Circle Has No End | | |
| IronGuinness | Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery , today is a gift, That's why they call it the present !! | | |
| IronGuinness | Those that won't, Our No better then those who cant' | | |
| DREW75 | “Do or do not... there is no try.” -Yoda | | |
| DREW75 | “Do or do not... there is no try.” -Yoda | | |
| pga_mike | Do not let the pursuit of perfection interfere with improvement. | | |
| akustix | The task must be made difficult for only the difficult inspires the noble heart. -Kierkegaard | | |
| pga_mike | "OW!" ~ Me at the end of the Shamrock Marathon | | |
| tmhoran | the race is not won by the swift and the strong, but by the one who endures to the end. | | |
