| Motivational Quotes |
| "Anything is Possible" - Ironman Motto |
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"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Luis Escobar |
| "Go
after what you want in life. And don't let anything get in your way.
Whatever your goals or priorities, they rock. It does not matter
what anybody else thinks...not ever. You go get it for yourself. If you
make amistake, you learn from it. Then you don't make it again." -Ed Zerkle |
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"There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing." - Ben Zander |
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"When
we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the
darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will
happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on, or we
will be taught to fly." - Patrick Overton |
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"You'll be wistful for the "wall" of the marathon, when you hit the "death grip" of the ultra." - Bob Glover |
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"A
man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any
hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing
it well." - G. K. Chesterton |
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"If you under-train, you may not finish, but if you over-train, you may not start." - Stan Jensen |
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"Your
body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue.
Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately
functions independently of logic." - Tim Noakes |
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"Far
away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not
reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead." - Louisa May Alcott |
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"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Bagehot |
| "That which does not destroy me makes me stronger" - Nietzsche |
| "Self-conquest is the greatest of victories." - Plato |
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"A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning |
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"The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them." - Arthur Clarke |
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"The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been." - Sally Edwards |
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"Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein |
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." - T.S. Eliot |
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"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it." - Goethe |
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“I
cannot do everything, but still I can do something and because I cannot
do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Edward Everett Hale |
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" - Kierkegard |
| "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost |
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"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, keep moving." - Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." - Thoreau |
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"Fatigue makes cowards of us all" - Vince Lombardi |
| "Swim 2.4 miles, Bike 112 miles, Run 26.2 miles...brag for the rest of your life." - John Collins (Ironman co-founder) |
| "You can quit if you want, but no one will care and you'll always know." - John Collins (Ironman co-founder) |
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"If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner." - Bruce Fordyce |
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"I have met my hero, and he is me." - George Sheehan |
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"Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up." - George Sheehan |
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"It's
very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to
beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is
against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit." - George Sheehan |
| "The
runner need not break four minutes in the mile or four hours in the
marathon. It is only neccessary that he runs and runs and sometimes
suffers. Then one day he will wake up and discover that somewhere along
the the way he has begun to see the order and law and love and truth
that makes men free." - George Sheehan |
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"Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes." - Scott Tinley |
| "Speed is sex ... distance is love." - David Blaikie |
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"If I can't go faster I'll go longer." - Doug Barber |
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"May the road rise up to greet you, and the wind always be at your back" - Irish proverb |
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"26 miles 385 yards is where racing ends and ludicrous extremes begin." - from "Runner's World |
| "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...." - Dory/"Finding Nemo" |
| "Your
biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the ache in your lungs and
the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells 'CAN'T",
but you don't listen. You just push harder. And then you hear
the voice whisper 'can'. And you discover that the person you thought
you were is no match for the one you really are." - Unknown |
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself." - Unknown |
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"The finishing line isn't given; it is earned." - Unknown |
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"His IQ drops 50 points every time he laces up a pair of running shoes." - Unknown |
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"If you can't run fast, run far." - Unknown |
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"To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible - to be as much as we can, we must dream of being more." - Unknown |
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"Beware of the chair!" - Unknown |
| "Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right." -Unknown |
| "Don't sweat the small stuff!" - Virginia Addison |
| "Discipline is not weakness." - Ed Zerkle |