Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Motivational quotes for Ironman (9 more days!!!)

1. “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

2. "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

3. "The body can only do so much, after that, mind and soul takes over.”
Karen Bliss Livingston – Elite road racer, captain of the Saturn cycling team

4. "A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong". – Unknown

5. "Pain. Love it, hate it, get angry at it. Breathe it with every breath, feel it with every step and use it. It lets you know you are still alive, more alive than most people will be in their whole lives". – Strauss

6. “Yes, it will hurt! So get over it!” – Unknown

7. "Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition". - John Smith

8. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another”. - Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life

9. “Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” - Plato

10. “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.” - Babe Ruth

11. "Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it." - Knute Rockne

12. “To tri is to risk failure, not to tri is to guarantee it!” - Adapted from unknown author

13. “The race isn't over until you cross the finish line. You'll be surprised at how much can change in the last twenty strides." ---Jackie Dugall

Plus two bonus quotes:

"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

"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