“Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
My favourite is a quote from Yuri Vlasov, he said that in one onterview:
/…/strong people don’t die.˝
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost. The place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
This one is my all time favorite.
Tried. Failed. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.
You can’t quit because you CAN’T quit.
[quote]Stan Smith wrote:
There is a good one that Wayne Bennett, who is a Rugby League coach has in his book. It’s a good one for those training sessions where it is raining, cold, too hot or whatever your gripe may be.
“Thinking about ploughing won’t get the job done.” - Wayne Bennett.[/quote]
i beleive he also says “if you do what you have always done you get what youv’e always got”. or something to that effect
“What you know bout killin’.” -From the movie Platoon
From a guy on usenet years ago: “Sometimes you have to forget all the studies and theories and just lift like a fucker.”
“Grip it and rip it”
if im deadlifting… heard it on powermagonline i think
“Little bitch weight” i think i made it up… may have heard it somewhere
[quote]georgebushrules wrote:
Tom Highway wrote:
‘Good is the enemy of Great.’
Nice one, where did you hear this? or did you make it up yourself? One of my favorite quote’s is from pumping iron when Arnold is squatting with his partner. If you guys cant recall the seen, Arnold’s partner, cant remember his name, is squatting 600lbs. On his 8th rep, arnold says, “come on, lets get serious”, then yells at him to do more reps. I love that seen…[/quote]
I use that one all the time. Also:
“put on your big girl panties and lift”
“Every day, you have to make a decision between the right and the easy. Though it may cost you sweat and tears, always choose the right. The easy way will never take you forward.”
[quote]Tom Highway wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
georgebushrules wrote:
Tom Highway wrote:
‘Good is the enemy of Great.’
Nice one, where did you hear this?
I think this might’ve been Sir Edmund Hillary. I could be wrong though.
It’s a sign in the Tampa Bay Bucs locker room. Not sure where it originated.[/quote]
It’s a common French proverb “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien”… or so I thought. Upon looking it up, I see it’s attributed to Voltaire, the French writer/philosopher, but when he wrote it, he was quoting an old Italian wise man:
“Dans ses écrits un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l’ennemi du bien;”
……
“C’est bien ici qu’on peut dire:
Il meglio è l’inimico del bene”
Couldn’t find who that Italian wise man was, but apparently, that saying is quite old.
Excuses are the nails in the house of failure.
I can’t believe that I’m actually going to quote this guy, but here goes:
“Winners do what losers don’t want to do.”
Yeah, that’s form Dr. Phil. I’m not a fan of his but that phrase has always stuck with me when I’ve felt like skipping a work out.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
“Shut up and Squat”
“Cowboy Up” (Brokeback Mountain stole much of the meaning, but it’s still good)
“AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!”
[quote]nuwayv wrote:
I can’t believe that I’m actually going to quote this guy, but here goes:
“Winners do what losers don’t want to do.”
Yeah, that’s form Dr. Phil. I’m not a fan of his but that phrase has always stuck with me when I’ve felt like skipping a work out.[/quote]
It’s better than his “a pancake has two sides, no matter how thin you make it.”
Obviously, he’s never seen one of my delicious Moebius pancakes.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.”
My favorite is the expression about Big dogs running through, or wait, was that sweating failure and waking up early? I forget, but it really gets me going.