a few for you...
I don't think of these while riding, but sometimes I post them around to get my sorry ass out on the trail...
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
- George Shultz
It is a sublime thing to suffer and be stronger.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People think I won the Olympic because I have a secret. Of course my Gold Medal has nothing to do with the fact that I shot 300 arrows a day for two years, I have a %
[email protected]% secret.
- Jay Barrs
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
- Sir Roger Bannister
There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide.
- Rolf Arands
People ask me what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike six hours a day. What are YOU on?
- Lance Armstrong
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
- Muhammad Ali
The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
- Mark Twain
Few of us know what we are capable of doing . . .; We have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out.
- Alfred A. Montapert
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.
- Ed Eyestone
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming *WOW*! What A Ride!
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd.
- I Ching
Often the true test of courage is not to die, but to live.
- Count Vittorio Alfieri
Significant problems you face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Security is mostly a superstition. It is not found in nature and children of man do not as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche