Classic quote

[Matthieu O’Halloran - "M@"]

"Having total belief in the wrong plan, is slightly better than having partial belief in the right plan"

[pantani]

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties.
I knew I was destined for great things.
People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest.
I agree.
Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Scott DeFillipis - "Scott D"]

"Every time I run it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK."
- LRC legend Yuki Kawauchi, the 13:59, 29:02 amateur runner who ran a stunning 2:08:37 marathon in Tokyo this past weekend and then fainted at the finish. (Although it is a cultural tradition in Japan to fall to the ground at the end of a race like Ritz in high school), Kawauchi has run six marathons and ended up in the medical area after 5 of them

Another quote coming from letsrun.com.  Check out the story on this guy!  I know Hiro and Maki are proud!!

[pantani]

I’d race 20 – 25 times a year as well as do that sort of volume (Note: approx 50 hrs a week, 30k yards swim, 500 miles bike, 80-100 miles run).

I was a zombie for nearly a decade,
but I did win a lot of races.

Being a zombie was a very small price to pay from my point of view.

Scott Molina

[DamienC]

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

[jeff4]

Keegan,

'nuttin' like a good a$$ chewin' for breakfast. . . .'

- jeff4

[rebekahkeat]

I talked to Zena our warrior peincess on skype after the recent 2nd in Abu Dhabi, and we discussed how it went.She made it very darn obvious why we call her 'Zena the Warrior' as she informed me' i hurt from the first 1km on the bike'..oh no i said so how did u continue...she replied ' easy i just thought of the money'... 'and i told myself..how i love the sweat, the burning in my legs, the sticky gels all over my hands and the piss running down my legs'!!!'
... .NOW THAT GUYS IS WHY SHE IS F...N GOOD!!..Take a leaf out of her book everyone.I had to reply ' yeah i like all that( )...maybe not the piss running down my legs though'..

[Scott DeFillipis - "Scott D"]

Another gem from the boys at letsrun.com...

"On a track in Kenya, say, you have a great number of Olympians and major athletes all there at one time. They're all watching each other and pushing each other all the time. Some of them are earning lots of money, but they're living in camps with no electricity, no water, that are horrible, dirty, awful. I remember saying to one of them 'Why are you staying here? This is a pretty awful place.' He said: 'See that beautiful house up there on the mountain? That's my house. If I live there I'll become fat. Here, I'm sharing a room with a 17-year-old who wants to kick my backside. I'm not going to let him do that.'"


-Glasgow University lecturer Yannis Pitsiladis who has argued that success in sports is not linked to genetics, but rather other environmental/living factors.

[pantani]

I'm lucky enough to have a 1962 edition of the book 'Run to the top' by Arthur Lydiard, and a 1960 edition 'How to become a Champion' by Percy Wells Cerutty. Yes the pages do smell 50 years old but are filled with gold   

Work does things.
But work simple never did great things or every labourer would become a rich man. Every one who trained sincerely and long – a champion.
We know they do not.
It is the quality of the work that is important.
Work does things.
Intelligent work does things better.


To stop when it hurts is to stop when it works.
If you are a stopper when it hurts, you can rest assured that you are not destined to go very far.
Try tiddlywinks instead.


I recall two lads. One an ugly duckling, weakly and gangling – he started at twenty years of age in the lower 10 percent of the athletes in this country. He was a ‘joke’ in his club, rated so low as to not even making club teams. He came to see me for lessons. He improved his four mile time by two minutes in one season. Awkward and un-coordinated as any athlete  in my experience, he was endowed with such a simplicity of outlook, such a capacity for punishment and effort, that my heart has bled inwardly for this man. He went on to become the champion of his club in every event from the 880 to ten miles, and from memory I should include the 440.

No other athlete is ranked higher in my esteem or affection. But the world has never heard of him. His name was Les Fricker.
In our camp, Fricker is a standard – to strive like Fricker is to be ranked with the highest; as a trier and punisher he has no superior. A simple name, unhonoured, and unsung elsewhere, he rates with the highest at Portsea.

It is the ‘overcoming’, not the ‘success of’, that is important.

[Fanwithaninterest]

Winston Churchill:

"If you find yourself going through hell, Keep Going".

[Christian Nitschke]

I read a very nice quote in the book
"Born to run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" some weeks ago:

"Every morning an antilope awakes in Africa knowing that it has to run faster than the fastest lion to survive. Every morning a Lion awakes in africa knowing that it has to run faster than the slowest antelope to survive. No mater if you are an antilope or a lion you should run when the sun rises."

[Matthieu O’Halloran - "M@"]

"There are champions everywhere. Every street's got them. All we got to do is train them properly"

-Lydiard

[daviddellow]

This isn't really a quote, more of a sledge which is part of the game in cricket.

In the 1999 cricket World Cup Australia needed to beat South Africa to keep their tournament hopes alive. Steve Waugh was on 56* and leading Aus to victory when he gifted Gibbs a simple catch. Gibbs went to celebrate the catch but instead dropped it, leaving Waugh to retort: "You've just dropped the World Cup". He was right, Aussie went on to win the game and the tournament, knocking out South Africa in the process.

[doc]

steve waugh 
by name and by nature ,
you young uns , might not know the old grizzly  australian captain who like nothing better than to sledge every one , given the chance ,
was first dropped from the australian team for his slap happy whirlwind batting approach
he could whip up a 20/20 inings in the middle of a died in the wool  test match
in comes the young irrespnceable waugh  at a tuff time , and there he goes 35 min later out for 85
but he loved a bouncer he would hook ev ery thing  bowled around his head .
well after being dropped and spending 2 seasons out of the team .
when he was brought back .
he promised ill not hook again , and true to his word , he just wouldnt play em and become  a rock of stability , then captain and then one of the hardest bastards in  world cricket .

 

[rebekahkeat]

God knows what will happen with the 'new' captain....bit of a worry lol!