"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Author Beverly Stills

When was the last time you really did your best and you got through and you said, "God I did my best!" That's Steve Prefontaine. He did his best; everytime, everyday. He showed up everyday. He worked out everyday. The result was he was the best there was. What a message! - Unknown, from the video "Fire On The Track, The Steve Prefontaine Story"  

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule - Samuel Butler, English Author 1835-1902  

JUST DO IT- NIKE  

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." –Sophocles

The journey of 1,000 miles *or 3* begins with one step

I don't believe in quitting, only because I'm too afraid it may become a trend

"I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality." -March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano Espy awards  

"Fitness is nothing new--just ignored. Out of the 21 major civilizations that have failed in history--19 failed due to lack of physical fitness. Think it can't happen in America? Think again--before it's too late. Get up. Get off the couch--and GET MOVING!" -Ron Jones  

"Not less than 2 hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather should be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind is not strong." -Thomas Jefferson

"Anything in life is possible, make it happen." Jack Lalanne 

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary - author unknown

There is an excuse for everything. He or she who comes up with the least amount of excuses is the one who triumphs. – Jonathan Williams

Know I chose my own fate, I drove by the fork in the road and went straight - Jay Z, Renegade

*Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.*  

"I look not back, I look in front." The famous German soccer player Lothar Matthaeus after he was hired by the New York Metro Stars shortly before his retirement

"It's not what I can do, it's what I will do." - Kyle Maynard

...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived - Henry David Thoreau  

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -From the extraordinary writer and philosopher Goethe.  

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...you must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt  

Since you learn from your mistakes, never give up and you'll make it to GENUIS.

Be Consistent – In order to yield the best results from one’s training, it is important to be consistent. For example, training 4 days every week will lead to better results than training one day one week, then 7 times the following week, then two times the week after.  

Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) – This philosophy is the idea that every situation can be turned into a positive. For instance, if one is running up a hill and it really hurts, one can think how the action of running up the hill will make one stronger and, therefore, is beneficial. I have found this idea to be extremely helpful in running. The concept can be further extended to life in everyday situations. A fight with a loved one can be looked at as an opportunity to improve communication.  

It has to start somewhere It has to start sometime What better place than here, what better time than now? - Guerilla Radio, Rage Against the Machine  

do what it takes to step through - 46 and 2 , tool  

The attempt is always made – unknown

Nike Air Advertisement Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you've never tried. Risk it. Enter a triathlon. Write a letter to the editor. Demand a raise. Call winners at the toughest court. Throw away your television. Bicycle across the United States. Try bobsledding. Try anything. Speak out against the designated hitter. Travel to a country where you don't speak the language. Patent something. Call her. You have nothing to lose and everything everything everything to gain. JUST DO IT.

Three things you must believe in (in order to)…1) yourself 2) your teammates 3) your coach – Patrick Dormer

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more – Edward Norton in the movie Fight Club

Go confidently into the direction of your dreams, live the life you’ve imagined – Henry David Thoreau  

Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not.  When you race him, he will win – Tom Fleming

Courage is the resistance to fear, not the absence of it – Mark Twain

Obstacles are those fearful things we see when we lose sight of out goal – Henry Ford  

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have late-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, and they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill - Muhammed Ali

The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care – Self Esteem from The Offspring  

First you do your job, and then you get your pay – Mike Collins

Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously.  You know when you need a break.  You know when you need a rest.  You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of.  And you know when it’s time to take care of yourself.  To do some thing that makes you stronger, faster, more complete.  Because you know it’s never too late to have a life.  And never to later to change one. – Nike

Runs end. Running doesn't -Nike  

Test your faith in yourself daily - Nike

You either ran today, or you didn't – Nike 

There is no finish line – Nike

“Always” and “never” are two words you should always remember and never use – John Traugott

This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use, as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, not loss; good, not evil; success, not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for it. May I have sufficient wisdom and courage that this shall be my record for today. ~Author Unknown

If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record- Unknown

All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough.  They'll say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.  THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no until all the no's become meaningless.  All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.  They will tell you no. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES – NIKE

You have to free your mind.  You have to let go of it all – fear, doubt, and disbelief – from the movie, The Matrix

Strive for excellence, not perfection- Unknown

The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen- Nike

A response to all of life’s problems: Do something about it! – Brett Hauze

Who do you think you are?  Are you an athlete?  Because if you are, you know what it takes to be the best.  You know you can’t just sit around and talk about how much you want it.  Show me you want it.  Stop bs-ing about how much you want it and go out there and get it.  Then whether you win, loose or collapse on the finish line, you’ll know exactly who you are. – Nike add campaign 1996 Olympics 

To give anything less then your best is to sacrifice the gift – Steve Prefontai

Michael Jordan on Fear - I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. Why? Because when you think about the consequences, you always think of a negative result.

Some people get frozen by that fear of failure. They get it from peers or from just thinking about the possibility of a negative results. They might be afraid of looking bad or being embarrassed. I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life, I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it. I don't believe you can achieve anything by being passive. I'm not thinking about anything except what I'm trying to accomplish. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success. If it turns out my

best isn't good enough, then at least I'll never be able to look back and say I was too afraid to try. Failure always made me try harder the next time.

That's why my advice has always been to "think positive" and find fuel in any failure. Sometimes failure actually just gets you closer to where you want to be. If I'm trying to fix a car, every time I try something that doesn't work, I'm getting closer to finding the answer. The greatest inventions in the world had hundreds of failures before the answers were found.  

I think fear sometimes comes from a lack of focus or concentration. If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform. After that, you can't control anything anyway. It's out of your hands, so don't worry about it.  -Michael Jordan