Motivational tag lines...

Failure is not an option!

if is was easy... everyone would do it

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass their master.

Every time you train, you are shaving five seconds off your next event.

--"Bravery is not a lack of fear, but is positive action in the face of fear."
--"You can always quit, and they won't care...but you will always know."
--"The walls in life are there not to stop us but to deter those who aren't determined enough to climb over them."

7 Ps - Proper Prior Planning Prevents P!ss Poor Performance

Edited by jvanis 2009-08-11 4:25 PM

Read below... Basically means don't get so absorbed in the training graphs, HR data etc that you lose focus on what you are trying to do. I see it every day at work where people gaze at report after report trying to figure why they have not improved or have better #'s vs. getting off there a$$ and making it happen.

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at 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 have never tasted victory or defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt.

I love this one, and I say it everytime I hear someone say, "I could have done that," or "I could have been faster."

motivating for me, but not about training:

"What you eat in private, shows in public."

another one I like is:

"I do today what you won't, so I can do tomorrow what you can't"

This may hurt today, but failure will hurt forever.

Physical fitness is fleeting, strength is forever.

"The more you suffer in training the less you bleed in combat"

*Impossible is nothing

*The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

Anything short. Long siggies annoy me.

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway..-John Wayne

SEMPER FI

"It doesn't get easier - you just get faster." - Greg LeMond

"Everyone wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike 6 hours a day bustin' . What are you on?" - Lance Armstrong

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich

"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life...I don't think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the experience of being alive." - Joseph Cambell

"The arrow that hits the bullseye is the result of the one hundred previous misses." - Unknown

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Victoria Holt

"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.

"What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it." - Anonymous

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect (Vince Lombardi). Crap practice only makes you a crapmaster." - Mark Fleischman

"You never work out and regret it. You never go for a run and when you are done say, 'I wish I would have just stayed home.' You never climb a mountain, get to the top, and say 'I should have just been content to stay where I was.'" - Nike Commercial

I'm obsessed with quotes so I'm gonna post another reply...



Edited by cam224 2009-08-12 12:39 AM

"Don't go wobbly on me now."

(gotta say it with a British accent).

JC

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"I'm not on my bike for them" Lance Armstrong