There are a lot of cool quotes out there that came from famous movies or actors. But what about those little sayings that you use to get yourself motivated. You know, things your old coach used to say, or another athlete?
Such as:
“The only easy day was yesterday”
taken from the Navy SEALS
My buddy used to say this: “The gym is like a sewer, you get out of it what you put in”. and “You can never beat a man that’s not willing to give up”.
My all time fav is from Lance Armstrong:
“I once met three guys named PAIN, SUFFERING, and SACRIFICE.
Now, we’re inseparable. We’re best friends.”
Oh hell, I’ve got alot, but I’m kind of in a hurry right now. Here’s just a couple. I’ll post more later.
“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.”-unknown (maybe my all-time favorite)
“Don’t ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.”-unknown
“I’m not telling you it is going to be easy - I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it”
– Art Williams
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot… and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.”
-William Jennings Bryan
“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done 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; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
The heights by great men,
reached and kept,
were not attained
by sudden flight.
But they, while their
companions slept
were toiling upward
in the night.
[quote]butter wrote:
One of my favorites…kind of long but good.
“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done 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; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
–Theodore Roosevelt[/quote]
Here is my favorite Teddy Roosevelt quote. I’m not sure if it comes from the same speech as the one above, since is rings the same.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
“Victory is life!”- The Klingons. Yeah, I’m a Treky, WHAT?!
“Either come home a winner, or don’t come home!”-Someone from King of the Hill
“When you’re going into a cave to kill a lion, you can do 1 of 2 things: tip toe in and hope to suprise it, or run in screaming like a banshee, waving a torch in 1 hand and a machette in the other.”-Coach Mark Songy
“Step 3, act like you’re the shit.”-DH, Play Makers
