The Olympic Theory

nice little post. affirmations are also a big part but guessing that could go under part 5

 

Good read mate.

I particularly like this one.

 

A nice motivational video by Adidas with Muhammad Ali, Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Haile Gebrselassie, Ian Thorpe, Tracy Mcgrady, Maurice Greene and Laila Ali.

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Man I just love Adidas, coolest brand ever. I've said this so many times I think I deserve a sponsorship now. Adidas people if you're reading this I need new gloves and new boxing shoes.

 

It's a lonely world because, you feel like you're by yourself, all the time. The truth is, when you get knocked down you can't lay down, you gotta get up, you gotta go back at it if you ever expect to do it again." - Roy Jones Jr.

 

I'm not actually sure if that has any relevance whatsoever, but El Puma posted a quote, so I did too :good

 

Here's a little list of quotes I selected and that are hanging on a piece of paper in my home gym

“I’m always going to come in (to the fight) overconfident and I have a reason to. I always come in overconfident because I train so hard that I leave no room for doubt in my mind. I never go in there to lose. The word is not even in my dictionary. I train confident, and I train to think overconfidently. If I didn’t, I’d be a fool.”
-Bernard ‘The Executioner ‘Hopkins

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
-Vince Lombardi

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"
-Lance Armstrong

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
-Muhammad Ali

"You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone."
- Percy Cerutty

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills

"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."
- Carl Lewis

"It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort."
- Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech about Grant, delivered at Galena, Illinois, April 27, 1900
"Spirit ... has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle."
- Unknown

"Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Liane Cardes

"The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit."
- Ken Doherty

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb

Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
- Tommy Lasorda

"I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'"
–Mike Tyson

“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse” -
-Carlos Castaneda

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. - ------Muhammad Ali

Cus D’Amato Poem

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must; but don’t you quit.
Life is ***** with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow;
You might succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor’s cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit;
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

 

The dont quit poem that "from within" posted is a top poem.

Rocky Balboa - "The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that"

Unknown - Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you.
Most of all other people can't stop you.
Only you can stop you.

-- Les Brown-- Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

-- Les Brown -- You don't have to be difficulty. great to get started,
but you have to get started to be great.


-- Winston Churchill -- Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

-- Winston Churchill -- The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

--Winston Churchill --For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else

.-- Doug Firebaugh -- Something must die in order to grow
- your old habits, your old self image,
your old thinking, your old life -
must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner---- English proverb

Dan Quayle--The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW---The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.



Just a few

 

"Those who think they have to choose between being strong and intelligent, are probably neither" - RDJ

Shameless self plugging

 

Find yourself in a maniac's mind: carnivorous, lusting and fulfilled by the the atrocities you commit. Be assured in your dominance. Lick your canines and incisors, and smile. Now lift.

 

I'm very disappointed in the end, I expected something tough

 

Lifting is for us tough folk :deal