1 post tagged “quotes”

 

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

~ Phillips Brooks

 

LIFE is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW, what a RIDE!"

~ Unknown

 

"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, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO  ~  what a ride!"

~ Unknown variation of above~

 

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation."

~Jack Nicklaus

 

"The faster you pedal, the sooner the pain stops"

~Robb Ayers eMail signature

 

“WORK is speed entering the body” & “Pain is speed entering the body”

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

"Why is that people will drop $2000 on race wheels and a few c~notes for an ugly tattoo and then

balk at the race fee?"

~ Blackie

 

"Every time I suffer I'm a better man because of it." 

~Lance Armstrong

 

"In an ideal world there would only be bicycles, roads smooth as silk and the wind always at your back."

~Vita 2005

 

The road is not crowded along the extra mile.

~unknown~

 

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

~ Henry Kaiser

 

"Don't buy upgrades; ride up grades."

~ Eddy Merckx

 

“pain goes away, but quitting is forever!”

~Graeme Street~

 

"Test your own limits and keep going"

~Dove Dark Chocolate Promise message~

 

If you change nothing ... Nothing changes

~unknown~

 

"GOALS are important ~ extremely important ~ but if you don't have a clear idea of why you are setting these goals, your motivational level will more than likely decrease with each passing day, making you more and more susceptible to failure."

~Paula Newby Fraser~

 

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair of the future of the human race."

~ HG Wells

 

"There was a second supremely sweet moment of victory. As I made my way through the finish area, I passed the Cofidis team. Assorted members of the organization stood around, the men who I felt had left me for dead in a hospital room.  ‘That was for you,’ I said as I moved past them."

~Lance Armstrong after winning the opening time trial and becoming the leader of the 1999 Tour de France

 

"Anything that you are willing to tolerate ... will stay in your life"

~LL Cool J~

 

"I made the decision to be the very best that I can be"

~LL Cool J~

 

"Ability is what you are capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz~

 

"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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

~~ Mark Twain ~~

 

“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us."

~Hebrews 12:1

 

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are STUCK in traffic on their way to the gym to RIDE the stationary bicycle.

~ Earl Blumenauer~

 

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it"

~Goethe~

 

"Body maintenance is the best way to begin a long lasting and fruitful relationship with yourself."

~concreteblonde~

 

'Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.'

~ Grant Petersen

 

"Why don't you watch the devil organize your swim stuff, and let Prada eat the ice cream?"

~ rkreuser

 

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki

 

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift."

"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."

"A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts."

"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off."

"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."

~Steve Prefontaine

 

"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."

~Harold Wilkins

 

"You can't train luck."

~Eddie Borysewicz, renowned Polish~American cycling coach ~

 

"If you think you can, or think you can't, you are right"

~Henry Ford~

 

"Think little goals and expect little achievement.  Think big goals and win big success."

~David Joseph Schwartz~

 

ASSERT YOURSELF in training and competition.

REFLECT, INFLECT, PROJECT your memories and solutions after every training or competition session.

COMMUNICATE with those who can help.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK for help if you need it. It does exist, and it IS worth the expense.

~Richard Wharton (coach)~

 

"Mentors exist to help you surpass the limitations of the individual."

~Richard Wharton (coach)~

 

PROJECT, don't REFLECT ~ If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today…

~Richard Wharton (coach)~

 

"I don't ask for help comfortably because it's not in my nature. I'd rather be able to do this on my own. But I don't think it's wrong to seek public funding because this is bigger than me."

~ Floyd Landis ~

 

"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe it's enough."

~Robert Heller~

 

"Extraordinary goals demand extraordinary commitment, sacrifice, and attention to detail. "

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen."

~~ Louis L'Amour, novelist (1908~1988)

 

“Ride lots.”

– Eddie Merckx

 

“It doesn’t get any easier; you just get faster.“

~ Greg Lemond

 

“Every time I suffer, I’m a better man because of it.”

~ Lance Armstrong

 

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.”

~ Mark Twain

 

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”

~ John F. Kennedy

 

“The essence of a good training program is managing time.”

~ Connie Carpenter (Olympic road race champ)

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

~T.S. Elliot

 

Do or do not, there is no try

~Yoda

 

If life is boring, you're not doing it right.

~unknown

 

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

~unknown

 

Trust your fitness

~Justin Daerr

 

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take ~ choose the bolder."

~ William Joseph Slim Shady

 

"Work together.  Everyone should feel like they are working harder than everyone else, but should strive for everyone else to get the credit for it.  That’s the way life works.  It’s true in every relationship.  You’ve got to bust it and you should always feel like you are doing more than the other person, ALWAYS, and be glad for it." 

~Erik Leamon

 

"He who want's to be greatest should be servant of all."

~Jesus

 

"There are no downhills when you are training with power"

~Andres Angulo

 

"Outside of cycling... mmhhh, I didn't know there was a world outside of cycling :)"

~Andres Angulo

 

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. 

~Will Smith

 

"The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves."

~Bob Proctor

 

"All the Powers of the Universe are Already Ours, It is We Who Have Put Our Hands Before Our Eyes and Cry that it is Dark!"

~ Vivekananda (1863 ~ 1902)

 

" It never stops hurting...you just get faster..."

~LeMond on training

 

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir mens blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

~DHB

 

“You are, at every moment, on the starting line of the rest of your life. Feel the cannon blow in every cell of your body– sending you on your way, into your day and into your future.”

~Mitch Thrower

 

"Leap boldly, not timidly to the other side of your challenges. Keep with you the confidence that you will land on firm ground"

~Mitch Thrower

 

"Humor is the shortest distance between two people."

~ Victor Borge

 

 

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

~ Christopher Reeve, 1952~2004, actor and speaker

 

"Bikejournal is great! It always makes you ride more than you think you would have!" 

 ~~ George C., Sherwood, AR

 

“No pain, no pain.”

~ Lon Haldeman (motto on long rides)

 

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

~ Vincent Van Gogh

 

"Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away"

OB1 (from UK)

 

"I meet so many people that have "superwhatever" rattling around in their head.  They have this person they are convinced they are supposed to be, and their superwhatever is killing them.  They have this image they picked up over the years of how they are supposed to look and act and work and play and talk, and it's like a voice that never stops shouting in the ear.  And the only way not to be killed by it is to shoot first...Becuase your superwhatever will rob you of today and tomorrow and the next day until you take it out back and end its life." 

~Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis. 

 

“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”

— Louis L’Amour, novelist (1908–1988)

 

"So the lesson learned yet again is ~ don't quit.  Don't ever give up, you might surprise yerself w/ a good result even when you aren't feeling all that while doing it.  And even if the results aren't what you'd hoped for ~ nobody ever got better at something by not doing it."

~MurphysLaw(on CrucibleFitness ~> MikeB)

 

"I believe in Floyd, I believe he hasn't had a fair shake. I don't trust the lab."

~Lance Armstrong

 

"If these latest events had emerged in December or January, everything would have been clarified and closed now, for good or bad. Instead, new documents have suddenly arrived two weeks before the start of the Giro d'Italia. First they let me train like a donkey and then say 'Sorry, please stop and explain.' That's a time~bomb form of justice."

~Ivan Basso(Just before he confessed he contemplated blood doping but didn’t follow thru)

 

"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty."

~Martha Friedman

  

"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among ourselves...

~Romans 15:5 (Used with Marianne Park’s signature)

 

"It's not cheating if you thought of it first."

~http://www.myspace.com/bobkilgore

 

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

~Thomas Edison~

 

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

~~Peter F. Drucker

 

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

~ Sir Francis Bacon

 

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  ~ Dan Rather

 

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

  ~ Ray Bradbury

 

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

~ Thomas Carlyle

 

"It's been a long road home."

~Mark Martin

 

"The bicycle is just as good a 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

 

This is only true for some husbands...the good ones you keep up the maintenance on them because they are worth it.

~Nikki Fuller

 

"Better late than never."

~Ivan Basso (he replied: Asked why it took so long for him to confess ~~ after nearly a year of denials that included lying to Discovery Channel in order to be given a place on the team)

 

"Basso has accepted his responsibility, but he is not the only one responsible. He will have to pay for his mistakes, that is okay, but he is not a gangster. He is a good guy and not a rascal."

~Franco Ballerini, Italian national coach

 

“Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal.”

~Japanese proverb~

 

“Planning gives you a focus for training activity.

When you have a focus, you are able to stay on task.”

~Peter Usher~

 

“A plan is like a road map.  It can show us the way, head us in the right direction, and keep us on course.

Planning means mapping out how to get from where we are now to where we want to be.

Developing the plan lays out the sequence of events that have to occur for, you to achieve you goal.”

~Dr. Peter Usher, Gold Mind~

 

“Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but its starting point.”

~Henry Mintzberg~

 

"I cannot understand and I strongly disagree with the plea for a reduction of the sanction. Those who ask for that have no respect for the fight against doping, for cycling, for the large majority of clean riders and for the riders who have admitted to doping."

~~ Pat McQuaid, UCI president, rejecting calls for a lighter penalty for Ivan Basso

 

"Son, you spend enough time doing something you'll eventually get good at it, in spite of a lack of talent or intelligence."

~older gentlemen (pool player)

 

"Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves."

~~Lee Nichols

 

“If you need a job to give you a life … You either need a new job or a new life”

~~the Chief (Richard) – Grey’s Anatomy (responding to Addison saying … “I need this job … I need a reason to stay here”

 

Expect failure … but don’t accept it

~Darrell Waltrip – 2007 May 600

"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

Racing is a good way to get your ride over quickly,
~Ian Hope

“At mile 18 of Ironman you have to nut up to finish”

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

“Slow is smooth … smooth is fast”

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
~Sir Edmund Hillary

 “Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and they CEASED, and there was CALM.”

~Luke 8:24 –

 

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

~Henry Ford

 

“Everyone is responsible for their own Training”

~David Wonn

 

“Don’t use your stuff up to soon (in a race or training)”

~David Wonn

 

“The beauty of working hard toward goals is what happens to our body and mind along the journey.  We become stronger, faster, disciplined, positive, refined... as that goal becomes more into focus.  Lock onto your dream, live it, breathe it, soak it up... and the dream will evolve into sweet reality.

Whether you're enjoying an easy spin along gorgeous ocean shoreline... or hammering mile repeats in 30 degrees, eyes pierced by windchill... you are powerful, amazing,poised for success.  As mulitsport athletes we work hard and enjoy healthy lifestyles as payback.”  
~Christine Knight

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

~ Hayes Sanborn (running2far on www.cruciblefitness.com )

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." 

~Jim Rohn

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

"Excellence is achieved by the mastery of fundamentals."
~Vince Lombardi

 

"I can win. On paper it is possible that I can really win."

~Fabian Cancellara is confident of Prologue success

"You are not limited by fitness, lifestyle or equipment. Your biggest limiter is the belief in your own potential."

~Patrick McCann

 

“Life is too short to not do cool $#^%”

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

"It's like a washing machine in there. As quick as you get yourself to the front you get shuffled down the back and have to do it all again."

~~ Simon Gerrans (AG2R) on the pack action during the Tour's opening flat stages.

 

"Focus on performance, leave the pain for the athletes behind you."

~G. Byrn

 

"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going."

~ George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian

 

"The German is a strange guy. During the race he won't talk to anyone. Before and afterwards sure, but between the start and the finish he is a robot."

~~ Tom Boonen on Eric Zabel, the man he leads 160~144 in the Tour's points competition

 

"Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I am on my bike busting my rump six hours a day."

~~ Lance Armstrong

 

"It's 2007. Everyone's accessible by cell phone, e~mail or Blackberry. I declared where I was 365 days a year. Everybody has to play by the same rules."

~~ Lance Armstrong, rejecting Rasmussen's excuses for not keeping doping control officials informed of his whereabouts.

 

"Nature culls sick herds of animals. Cycling is just going through a natural culling . . . sad to say, but true. The riders and teams that have chosen to be clean will survive this."

 ~~ Jonathan Vaughters, manager of U.S.~based Team Slipstream

 

"If God invented marathon's to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken him totally by surprise."

~~ Unknown

 

"I was on my way to achieving the greatest thing I am capable of, and it was taken from me."

~Michael Rasmussen believes the best rider lost the Tour

 

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
~William Connor Magee

 

"When I give, I give myself."

~Walt Whitman

 

“Why do I drag a tire around? I could give you reasons based on human physiology but the truth has to do with human psychology – I see value in doing things that other people aren’t willing to do.”

~Gordo Byrn

 

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

~Mark Twain

 

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

~FDR

 

"There are no such things as accidents—just two people competing for the same point on the space~time continuum."

~www.advrider.com … forum signature

 

If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid,
triathlon must have taken him completely by surprise."

~P. Z. Pearce, M.D.

 

“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”

~Chinese proverb

 

“I can forgive failure, but I can not forgive not trying.”

~Michelle Jones ~ White Horse Pub wall in England

 

“Hey y’all… hold my beer… watch this!”.

~Famous last words of a redneck.

 

"This is what Champions are made of".

~Pat Evoe (as quoted by

 

"the last part is the only part worth doing!"

~ Sally Maddox

 

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea. "

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

"It is hard.  As it should be."

~ Matt Simms

 

"How do you feel?  ~ I just won the Ironman!  I feel great!" 

~Michellie Jones' quote after winning the Ironman, 

 

"How do you think I feel?  I just swam the English Channel!  I feel great!"

~Lynne_Smith (swam English Channel  Aug 20, 2007 in 9hr 50mn)

 

I have learned that I have to have a clear plan before I get in the water, otherwise I allow myself to modify the plan.

~Lynne_Smith (swam English Channel Aug 20, 2007 in 9hr 50mn)

 

The Best Part is the Hard Part!

~unknown

 

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

~Lou Holtz, Arkansas.

"It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer... you broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not turn."

~2 Sam 22:33 (Marianne Park/Heather Bender had posted on their mirror before they got ready for IMKY)

 

% After 8~30~2007 VOX post

"It's funny 'til someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious!"

~Paula (IMwacko on http://EnduranceNation.US/forums )

 

Do what YOU can, with what YOU have, where YOU are.
~T. Roosevelt.

 

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall."

~Vince Lombardi

 

Keep your eyes open. Watch out for things you can avoid, and avoid them!

~ Marty Gaal Ultrafit Associate coach & the head coach of One Step Beyond

 

When I was growing up, we didn't have virtual reality. If a one~eyed barbarian warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun him.

~Dan J (MrApropos on www.endurancenation.us/forums )

 

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
~Gandhi

 

Childhood is a strange country. It's a place you come from or go to~at least in your mind.  For me it has an endless, spellbound something in it that feels remote.  It's like a little sealed~vault country of cake breath and grass stains where what you do instead of work is spin until you're dizzy. 

~Lyall Bush, Executive Director of Richard Hugo House, a center for writers and readers

 

"Learn something from everyone you meet"

~Dove Dark Chocolate Promise message~

 

"Don’t think about it so much"

~Dove Dark Chocolate Promise message~

 

“Think little goals and expect little achievements – Think big goals and win big success”

~David Joseph Schwartz

 

“The least amount of the most specific training at the appropriate time”

~Joe Friel

 

″Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. ″

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Laugh uncontrollably … it clears the mind"

~Dove Dark Chocolate Promise message~

 

"Only those who dare to lose, win."

~unknown

"Focus on performance. Leave the pain for those behind you."

~Gordo Byrn

"Fast is fast."

~Andrew, former masters swim coach, who contends that to race fast you must train fast.

"I can do all things through God who gives me strength."

~some famous book I've heard of . . .

"Dei Gratia" Latin for "By the Grace of God."

~Casey from Atlanta (TRIumphant One – http://EnduranceNation.US/forums) had this written on a piece of duct tape and placed it on the top of steer tube/stem for IM Moo. Also has this printed on his Road ID bracelet as it is his favorite centering prayers to acknowledge it is only by the Grace of God that he have the means, opportunity, and family to support to endeavor in this silly sport of triathlon. To him, every moment and mile of training and racing is a gift and this Latin expression helps keep him humble and thankful.

"You say you want to win... but are you willing to do the work?"

~Central Arkansas Christian (CAC) Football Coach

 

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

~Lou Holtz

 

"Give thanks in all circumstance"

~Thessalonians

 

* Listen; Follow directions and procedures
* Respect yourself, others
* Speak appropriately
* Be prepared and complete all assignments on time
* Take responsibility for your actions and choices

~Crystal Hill Elementary School (Arkansas) – 1^st grade rules m

 

The White Moment è

"At the peak of tremendous and victorious effort, while the blood is pounding in your head, all suddenly comes quiet within you. Everything seems clearer and whiter than ever before, as if great spotlights had been turned on. At that moment, you have the conviction that you contain all the power in the world, that you are capable of everything, that you have wings. There is no more precise moment in life than this, the WHITE MOMENT, and you will work hard for years, just to taste it again.

~Yuri Vlason ~ Olympic Champion

 

The Lord Almighty is my strength. He makes my feet like those of a deer. He makes me walk on the mountains. ~Habakkuk 3:19 – (mrrob – http://EnduranceNation.US/forums taped this to his top tube for motivation)

 

Start slow.
Don't stop.
Finish strong.

~Little girl citing the rules of racing (posted by Dan J (MrApropos on www.endurancenation.us/forums )

 

Certainty of purpose, clarity of focus, calmness of execution

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

No matter how bad it hurts, it probably won't kill you and it has to end sometime. Your only job is to keep going that way (points) until someone tells you to stop.

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

If it hurts now, the only way to make it stop hurting is to make it hurt a lot worse first.

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder

 

"Hurt" is subjective and you only define it by pushing your envelope and living to tell about it.

~Rich Strauss Endurance Nation Co~Founder