Motivational Quotes

I found a huge list of motivational quotes online a while back - all based around swimming - so i have chosen the ones which i think people can use and reflect on them to post on this forum.

"Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect"
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"99.9 percent right is 100% wrong"
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""If you don’t need help getting out of the pool at the end of your race, you didn’t swim hard enough""
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"Some people dream of success...others stay awake to achieve it."
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"If you think your good at something than just do it!!"
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"Pain is temporary, but pride will last forever"
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""Your toughest opponent.... look in the mirror!""
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"True swimming is getting in the pool even when you don’t feel like it and coming out wishing you could carry on and get back in!"
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"The practicing hurts, the lifting hurts, the lactic acid hurts, but what hurts the most is congratulating the winner."
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"No one trains for second place."
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"Trade weakness for power
trade doubt for confidence
trade fear for courage"
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"Push hard till it hurts...then push harder"
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""These are not obstacles, they are opportunities" < swim coach always tells us that when we are swimming a REALLY hard set!
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"If you don’t think your good then give up because you let yourself down before you tried"
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""Without dreams, there is no need to work; without work, there is no need to dream.""
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"Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character."
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""Veni Natavi Vici" I Came I Swam I conquered!"
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If you have more post them here. You may have already seen my Topic on the Invincible Determination which also had a few good ones in.

Keep working hard and the results will show,

Sean

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed.”

"Pain is weakness leaving the body - and strength training is the antidote." - Unknown

"Strength is magical; just a little bit more can mean the difference between success and failure." - Mike Berry

"Will you look back on life and say, "I wish I had," or "I'm glad I did"?" - Unknown

"The lazy never started and the weak died along the way." - Unknown

"Strength training is not about being the strongest; rather it is about being as strong as YOU can be." - Mike Berry

"People do not lack strength; they lack will." - Victor Hugo

"Training is King and Nutrition is Queen." - Steve from the Challenge

"Train with the will to die." - Enson Inoue, aka Yamato Damashi (a mixed martial arts fighter)

"...in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die who´s gonna win ..." -- Al Paccino

Dieing during the training is winning in the ring (my thaibox trainer)

Sean Ryan wrote:

"Training is King and Nutrition is Queen." - Steve from the Challenge

Hey, I made it on the quotes list, thats sweet. All the other quotes are very inspiring, keep them coming. I can read motivational quotes all day.

Sean Ryan wrote:

"...in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die who´s gonna win ..." -- Al Paccino

Any Given Sunday... Love it.. Just love it..

That is indeed one awesome movie! I gotta watch it again sometime next week

I was watching 'The Replacements' (Football movie with Keanu Reeves)

Anyways, i remembered this quote wich i really liked.

He Said:
'Pain heals... chicks dig scars... glory lasts forever.'

3 good reasons to give your best everyday

Very Nice Manny! I like it, that movie film was the shiz

A new one i have just come across:

"Those who have always yielded to temptation will never know the feeling of standing up to it and the satisfaction of resisting"

How about this: Get YOUR lazy ass off the couch before I shove my foot up in it!!!!

Got Motivation?

Hahaha,

I think i am now motivated! lol

I am Batman wrote:

How about this: Get YOUR lazy ass off the couch before I shove my foot up in it!!!!

Got Motivation?

Ohhhhhhhh....you're so sweet.....

[BUMP]

Just bringing this topic alive again... motivational quotes rocks!

Ha ha ha! Yes Manny!!! Motivational Quotes do rock!

Lets keep them coming!

Sean

This may not be completly motivational, but they do work for this comunity.

"Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up."

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool for ever."

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”