MOtivaion quotes

I think it goes:

`If you can't do something well, excel at doing it poorly.'

Or something. So motivating!!!

"The majority of people are still asleep in their beds so..."  by me

I got my first tattoo about a year and a half ago. It is on my side from just below my armpit to my waist and it reads:

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements and impossibilities; it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

One glance down to my side and I'm back in it.

See my sig line below....

"This is Steffan.

His name is Steffan.

HTFU!"

Never forget your beginners Spirit
Pain is no valid reason for stopping

sig

whoops - been said!

Edited by GottaSki 2009-10-30 8:15 AM

"Money will not be involved, but on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness"....so I've got that going for me...which is nice

part of my IM mental training required me to come up with "race mantras"

     ®    RFM (relentless forward motion)

®    Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

 

®    As the day gets longer, I get stronger.

 

®    Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, what do we do we swim, swim, swim

 

®    Calm, glide, ignore [swim]

 

®    No day but today

 

®    Don’t think you are. KNOW you are.

 

®    HTFU

To give anything less than your best is to waste the gift - Pre

and below

Big hitter, the Lama.

Two... age-related:

'Youth and talent are no match for age and treachery'

'La gallina vecchia fa buon brodo' - ('The old hen makes good soup')

WOW, that's a lot of writing!

Can we see a picture of this?

Sig line... I run to this song and sometimes it really just speaks to me.

My other quotes from my log:

Randy Paush: "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people."

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 achieve so much more than you ever thought you could. - (Added by: jknapman)

"Ironman is journey, first and foremost, inside myself. I wanted to find out what was deep inside me at mile 20 when 134 miles had stripped away all shields of adrenaline, caffeine, and glycogen and I was just left with my inner core, my spirit."- Dgillen- 2008 IMLP RR

“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)

Edited by KSH 2009-10-30 9:26 AM

This is one of my recent favorites:

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." -- Henry Ford

"There's a bear chasing you."

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!"

Speed is sex.

Distance is love.

My daughter's XC team has this written on the back of their team shirts.  I wondered where it came from.