Favorite Motivational Quote or Phrase for Tri

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Permalink Reply by slo-ride on July 20, 2008 at 10:53pm

Try Not. Do! or Do Not. There is no Try - Yoda

and this one helps too..."Look this good after 900 years you will not." - Yoda

on the serious side
"Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're probably right." - Henry Ford
"Average is your enemy" - Lance Armstrong
“It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”-unknown

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Permalink Reply by Carl on July 23, 2008 at 2:21pm

I can't remember where I picked this up but when it’s cold and wet (and believe me it is this side of the pond) it keeps me going.

"Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible"

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Permalink Reply by Debbie Blanke on July 25, 2008 at 6:59pm

LOVED that lecture, and didn't know it was on YouTube.... thx for mentioning it, the brick wall is only meant to be scaled and overcome, isn't it. Happy weekend!

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Permalink Reply by Ian Corless on July 28, 2008 at 1:49pm

"Sex the night before a race is only tiring if you have to go looking for it!" Bruce Fordyce, 9x Comrades winner

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Permalink Reply by Bob on July 29, 2008 at 10:03am

I have this on the back of a triathlon T-shirt and thought I would post it here....

START! * Absolute Mayhem * Catch Breathe * Relax * Find Stroke * Don't Get Kicked * Head Strong * Patience * Get Into Rythm * Because I Can * One More Bouy * Finish Strong * T1 * Feel The Road * Get Into Rythm * Head Strong * Get Comfortable * Ride The Pain * Because I Can * Chase 'em Down * Attack The Hill * Finish Strong * T2 * Jelly Legs * Find Pace * Take The Pain * Mile At A Time * Head Strong * Patience * Because I Can * Only For The Strong * FINISH!

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Permalink Reply by Bob on July 29, 2008 at 3:28pm

Here are ten more good ones.......

Life is not a matter of being dealt good cards, but of being able to play a poor hand well. —Unknown

Everything you do is your legacy. —Aaron Douglas Trimble

Blessings are placed within our reach, but they are not placed within our hands. —Unknown

No wonder experience is the best teacher. It has to teach us things we don’t want to learn. —Unknown

Every man dies, but not every man truly lives. —William Wallace

The crime is not to avoid failure, the crime is to not give triumph a chance. —H. Weldon

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. —George Bernard Shaw

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. —William Shakespeare

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. —Confucius

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau

TRIumph is just the "Umph" added to the "tri"

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Permalink Reply by Bob on July 30, 2008 at 10:40am

Some more I just got in a card from a dear friend and triathlete from San Diego....

>"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

>"Life isn't waht you want it to be....It's what you make it become."

>"The purpose of life, is to love it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

She also shared an inspirational story about her father and "pennies from heaven" and provided me an encouragement as I embark on my first 70.3 this weekend....(Thanks Cathy!)....Her note reads....

My father has long been my driving force when it comes to how I live my life. His life lessons to me, makes me much of what and who I am today. He and I ran over 16,000 miles together before he lost his life to cancer at teh age of 56. So now I run with his spirit supporting me all the way. As cancer stole his body of strength our runs became walks and soon only a block or two. We seemed to always find pennies on the ground during those walks and would keep them in a special jar. On our last walk.....I picked up a penny and Dad said, "When you find pennies in the future still pick them up because they will be from me. They will be pennies from heaven."

I can't begin to tell you how many pennies from heaven I have collected on my miles and miles of running and in races when I needed that extra little nudge off support. Once at the end of a 19 mile workout I was feeling sorry for myself and wanting to stop then I found just what I needed.....a penny from heaven.....I kicked in the last mile like it was mile one. I have stopped to pick up a penny in almost every race I have done. Others around me think I am a bit crazy stopping in a race to pick up a penny but they have no idea how important that penny is to ME.

Soooo....I picked through my jar and found you a 1970 (for your 70.3 race) lucky penny from heaven. May it bring you strength, support, faith, and LUCK!!!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin on July 31, 2008 at 6:46pm

The only easy day was yesterday.

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Permalink Reply by Kristian Fesel on August 6, 2008 at 2:46pm

Man I love this topic, i searched the net the other day looking for quotes. My wife works at Nike and she got from years at Nike:
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

If you have a body you are an athlete.

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

Not sure if the wording was 100% but still like them

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Permalink Reply by Jim on August 7, 2008 at 7:26am

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

Ben Okri

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Permalink Reply by Jim on August 7, 2008 at 9:30am

Thought of something else...

This isn't a quote but a line from a movie, a kids movie, called Bridge to Terebithia.
I find myself saying or thinking of this line often. It's silly when you first read it but its
power is in its simplicity.

"Together, Nothing Crushes Us"

"Together" can mean a multitude of things, your family, wife, husband, significant other, your triathlon group, social network, other athletes at a race, whatever... Nothing can crush you if you stand together. :0)

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Brooks on August 8, 2008 at 8:26pm

Heard a good one a few weeks ago........ "Obsession is what lazy people call dedication"

"You don't build a reputation on what you are going to do."- Henry Ford
"It is hard to fail, but it's even worse to have never tried to succeed."- Theodore Roosevelt

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