Classic quote

[javaman]

Rudyard Kipling was a 4:30 miler. - Quenton Cassidy, in "Once a Runner" (John L. Parker, Jr.)

IF

        If you can keep your head when all about you
        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
        If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
        But make allowance for their doubting too,
        If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
        Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
        Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
        And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

        If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
        If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
        If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
        And treat those two impostors just the same;
        If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
        Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
        Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
        And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

        If you can make one heap of all your winnings
        And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
        And lose, and start again at your beginnings
        And never breath a word about your loss;
        If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
        To serve your turn long after they are gone,
        And so hold on when there is nothing in you
        Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

        If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
        Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
        If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
        If all men count with you, but none too much,
        If you can fill the unforgiving minute
        With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
        Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
        And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

        --Rudyard Kipling

[Wyoming]

"Take the pain! Shut the %#$& up and TAKE THE PAIN!!" Sgt. Barnes, "Platoon."

"All I wanna do is drink beer and train like an animal." Rod Dixon. Olympic bronze medalist, 1,500 meters, 1972; 1983 NY Marathon champ.

To correct an earlier submission...

"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." Sun Tzu wrote that in "The Art of War" a couple thousand years before Juma Ikangaa said it.

[Kuokyuen]

"Train, Dont Strain"
-Arthur Lydiard

Doc,

Did you personally know the man? I was wondering whether Lydiard coaching philosophies has influenced your thinking also and the way you coach. I think Lydiard and Percy Cerutty the both of them were way ahead of their time.

Would be good to hear your thoughts on Arthur Lydiard though as you talked about cerutty in another post!

=)

[doc]

lydiards , training dogma fits triathlon better than any other athletic
coached doctrine.

[Stevo]

"The grass may look greener over the fence,
but sometimes you've just gotta water your own"

Me, last week,  when my boss told me he was leaving his missus.

 

SB.

[doc]

so very true

[rowland]

Hard Work beats Talent

When Talent doesn't work Hard...

[Matthieu O’Halloran - "M@"]

If your gonna be dumb then better be tuff!

If your gonna be soft then better be smart!

[doc]

luv it matty

[ejchet]

Call me hokey... but  Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid:

"We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions. "

"Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand? "

"Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important. "

Don't know, never been attacked by tree.

[ejchet]

Call me hokey... but  Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid:

"We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions. "

"Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand? "

"Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important. "

He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position

[ejchet]

"I'm just a regular guy. And I'll show you what a regular guy can do." Lance Armstrong

"When you've gone so far that you can't manage one more step,
 then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of."

pain is temporary quitting lasts forever

[DamienC]

Lothar Leder, when he was being told by the crowd on the run at Roth that he was going to be the first man to break 8hours: "Shut up!  That's bull$#!t!"

[jvigaray]

Did he really said it? 

[doc]

i was not there , but i know lother pretty well  , and i can vouch , that it would be his mind set , once he was locked in to doing what he needed to do ,
these people were distracting his concentration .
lother leder will unfortuneately nevet  get the kudos he deserves in the sport .
as he was descrimated against  in the usa , by 3 things ,
1/  drafting rules in the states
2/  marshals at kona 
3/  kona itself

but take it from some one that sifts thru the bulshit, that is american  tri journalism ,
lother leder for at least 5 years  was the best ironman on the planet ,
on any course
that  was not about  drafting .
and like most great ones , he was good short course to  ,very very good .
i watched him  7 days after winning roth  in near record time

get off the bike  and sit on then crush  peter robinson   in a world cup race  in frankfort germany

when robbo was near at his top .
the force of the german mentally when locked and loaded , was a thing to be hold