Quotable Quotes

Funny, Interesting or Inspirational Triathlon Quotes

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.”  – Theodore Roosevelt, November 4, 1910.

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“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”  -Henry Ford

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“Pain heals.  Chicks dig scars.   Glory… lasts forever.” -Shane Falco, The Replacements

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“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”  – U.S.M.C.

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“Everybody wants to know what I am on.  What am I on?  I’m on my bike, busting my ass, six hours a day.  What are you on?’”  -Lance Armstrong

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“The race is long, and in the end, it is only with yourself.”  -Mary Schmich, Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

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“Quitting is worse than dying.  When you quit you still have to live with it.”  -Unknown

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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion.” – Muhammad Ali, Boxer

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“That which does not kill me makes me stronger” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Has running added years to your life?”  “No, but it’s added life to my years”  – Anonymous Boston Marathon Runner (Age 75)

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- Roosevelt

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“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”  – Unknown

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“Anything is Possible. The impossible just takes longer.”  – Unknown

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“It’s because it’s what you love to do. It’s who you were born to be. And here you sit–thinking! Well, Ricky Bobby is not a thinker. Ricky Bobby is a driver. He is a doer, and that’s what you need to do. You don’t need to think. You need to drive. You need speed. You need to go out there, and you need to rev your engine. You need to fire it up. You need to grab ahold of that line between speed and chaos, and you need to wrestle it to the ground like a demon cobra. And then, when the fear rises up in your belly, you use it. And you know that fear is powerful, because it has been there for billions of years! And it is good! And you use it! And you ride it; you ride it like a skeleton horse through the gates of hell, and then you win, Ricky! You WIN! And you don’t win for anybody else. You win for you, you know why? Because a man takes what he wants. He takes it all. And you’re a man, aren’t you? Aren’t you?!”  -Susan; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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“I wanna go fast!”  – Ricky Bobby

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“Try not.  Do, or do not.  There is no try.”  -Jedi Master Yoda

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Drop me a line if you have a good one to add to the list!