INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

"You and your oppontent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between
you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement; absorbing his
attack and using his force to overcome him" ~
- Bruce Lee

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness
into our awareness.
Lao Tzu

It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
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;
who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions;
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 fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have
deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute
stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and
the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
Muhammad Ali

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and
growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere
and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or
willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind
there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki

If I lose pushing the pace the whole time, then at least I can live with
myself
Pre

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

"Some people create with words, or with music, or with a brush and paints. I
like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and
say, "I've never seen anyone run like that before." It's more then just a
race, it's a style. It's doing something better then anyone else. It's being
creative."
-Steve Prefontaine

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
-Steve Prefontaine

"I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something
exciting."
-Steve Prefontaine

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

"Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will
try to take it from you."
-Steve Prefontaine

"Pain is weakness leaving your body"
-USMC

"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and
knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough"
Steve Jones

"Run so hard you come in with bloody feet and missing toenails" (Sounds like
Pre to me)
-Rob Decestella

"Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any"
-Anthony Bailey

"Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called
courage"
-George Patton

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't
-Unknown

Winners don't wait for chances, they take them
-Unknown

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find
it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power
they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
-nba

Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.
-Jeremy H.

There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no
glory...
-Unknown

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
-Tom Wargo, on the senior tour

You don't win the silver, you lose the gold
-Mean Jean Oakland

Love is playing every game as if it's your last.
-Michael Jordan

This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study
it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I
on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?" -Lance
Armstrong

"The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer,
I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of
cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me
as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father." -Lance Armstrong

"During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience
so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head
down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The
Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even
morally.". -Lance Armstrong

"Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 100-percent chance or
a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you
have to fight." -Lance Armstrong

"If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on." -Lance
Armstrong

"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe
we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is
there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up,
or Fight Like Hell." -Lance Armstrong

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,
but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I
quit, however, it lasts forever." -Lance Armstrong

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising each and every time we fail." -Confucius

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right one in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit, unfortunately, so is losing."
- Vince Lombardi

"Your talent is God's gift to you.What you do with it is your gift back to God."
- Leo Buscaglia