Sportsmen

• Bud Winter
• Sometimes you just need to relax and win.
• Mark Allen
• Injury for an aging athlete can be a death sentence.
• Steve Magness & Brad Sulberg
• When people are at their best they report feeling loose, relaxed, and at ease. They aren’t thinking and they certainly aren’t trying. They are effortlessly flowing.
• We don’t learn from seeing step by step instructions, we learn from struggling with something and finding our way through it.
• To learn, we need to struggle.
• Do what makes you feel good.
• If you’re not having fun you’re not doing it right.
• The goal isn’t to go faster…the goal is to feel better doing it.”
• It's better to try to be great at being consistent than to try to be consistently great. [...] Setting perfect as the bar rarely leads to your best performance—or your best life. [...] It's better to aim for good enough rather than great. Good enough is a lot more probable than great.
• Performance driven by fear [of failure] burns bright but fades quickly. If you choose love as your motivator, you are developing something that is long lasting and can grow. You stop relying on an overtaxed stress and threat response system that sends a plethora of catabolic hormones screaming through your body, and instead come at your sport from a place of joy and excitement. [...] You know if you fail, while disappointing, it will not define you.
• Murrey Halberg (about going harder and harder)
• No matter how hard I tried...I would survive. I could not kill myself.
• Eliud Kipchoge - Breaking2
• 100% of me is nothing in comparison to 1% of the team
• In life the idea is to be happy
• If you don't rule your mind it can rule you
• Lelisa Desisa - Breaking2
• yesterday is not today
• Denis Kimeto(?) - Breaking2
• When you run the marathon your body is screaming "stop", your head is screaming "stop", everything is telling you "stop". You just doing everything you can to keep one foot hitting in front of the other.
• Matt Dixon - The Well-Built Triathlete
• Training should be a hugely important tool in improving your life in general.
• There are no rewards for doing more.
• It is not the actual amount of training stress that counts. Rather it is the relationship between stress and recovery that matters.
• Chris Boardman
• Someone once asked Chris Boardman if he would rather push a big gear or spin a small gear. He said that he would rather spin a big gear.
• Docherty
• He who wants it most wins!
• Barry Hoban
• The magic number is 200 – a race over that number of kilometres is a boy’s race. When it goes up to 260 K that’s when it becomes a man’s race – that extra hour-and-a-half makes all the difference.
• David Zabriskie
• You go and go and go until you don't think you can go anymore. Then you go more.
• Fausto Coppi
• If you want to ride your bike fast, then ride your bike, ride it and ride it some more.
• Chris Carmichael
• Success begins with confidence, and confidence is born of preparation.
• Staying at the front is about controlling your own fate.
• Losing a limb is grounds for going home early. Short of that, there’s no quitting.
• If you want to get better, you have to be prepared to be uncomfortable.
• Pete Pfitzinger
• The marathon is an aerobic event
• Greg Lemond
• It never gets easier. You just get faster.
• Armstrong
• Jeśli nie dasz z siebie wszystkiego, nie osiągniesz sukcesu.
• Jeśli w wyścigu nie uzyskujesz przewagi, to generujesz straty.
• Ból jest dobry, ponieważ doskonali ciało i duszę.
• Kona Ironman
• I will do this to be called Ironman.
• Finish. Even if you are a shadow of former self.
• If it was easy everyone would be doing it.
• Ultimate phisical test.
• Unknown
• The right bicycle can inspire you to chnage your life.
• You have to push yourself to the limit to learn where this limit is.