February 2012
“When I eat, it is the food that is scared.”
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
striking true
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
- Honore de Balzac
you have to care
“The first and most important rule as a good trainer is you have to care. And no matter how good, strict, and refined we are, we can never enforce caring.”
—Tony Budding, Director of CrossFit Media
know you can win
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.”
- Sugar Ray Leonard
January 2012
the fear of failure
“Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.”
- Paulo Coelho
Impossible is nothing
“Impossible is just a small word that is thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they’ve been given to explore the power they have, to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing!”
- Muhammad Ali
they deserve your respect
”Coaches are measured by their effectiveness at developing performance parameters, that lend to skill acquisition. You may not like them during a session, but when you step on that field, on the court, in the water or down range, they deserve your respect. Its the respect from recognizing that good coaches give you their heart, mind, body & soul so that you may succeed.”
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Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve...
– Rick Pitino (via tribander)
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
– Denis Waitley (via turbogirl)
turbogirl:
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work But from the afterglow of satisfaction That comes after the achievement of A difficult task that demanded our best.”