“When the gun go off, the race be over”!, a certain Mr B Johnson
“There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going”
“Adveristy cause some men to break, others to break records”
“It’s all about self-improvement. Always aim to be a better man than you were the day before”
and someone had Carpe Diem, thats our school motto. so it is very true and i try and live by it, as well as the other two quotes.
and can’t forget the old age
“Quitters never win, winners never quit” (sorry if someone else has alreayd posted it)
go to bed a winner, wake up a winner
Makes me think of the film “The Rock”, where Sean Connery replies after Nicholas Cage promises to “do his best”…
“Do your best?? That what loosers are always whining about after the winner’s already gone home to F**k the Prom Queen!”
You’re on top when you move from saying to yourself: “I think I can do this.” to “Let’s get it done!”
“Well Ben, you said you were going go out and run a world record and you did.” Dwight Stones
“I don’t talk shit Dwight.” Ben Johnson
“Now I know I will never find the light, unless like a candle I am my own fuel… consuming myself”
From a poem in a book on Bruce Lee. I’m not sure if he actually wrote it or not but the poem that it comes from is one of my favourites.
That’s my favourite quote - I was just searching for that earlier - I couldn’t think of the film - The Rock - now I see why I couldn’t remeber it!
Another on the same theme - even though I no great Star Wars fan.
“‘Do’ or ‘Do not’, there is no ‘Try’”
Yoda
“By the power of Truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe”
“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
-Dale Carnegie
Can we put the names of the people who we are quoting? I see some quotes with no names attached.
“If you think you’ve ‘arrived’ you have; and you’ll go no further.” - unknown
“There is never a failure in talent or ability, only in character”.- somebody
“Sure I’m lucky,and the more I practice the luckier I get."
Golfer Gary Player in repsonse to a comment on him being a ‘lucky’ player.
“There is nothing that I can do that a 10 year old couldn’t do…with 15 years of practice.”
-A world class pianist-
A young boy asked a man one day, “Sir, how do I get to Canrnegie Hall.” The older man replied, “Practice, practice, practice.”
“We make our own destiny.” -Kevin Sorbo as Hercules-
The only difference between the possible and impossible lies in a person’s determination
Tommy Lasorda, US Baseball Legend
Ben on weightloss
“If you wont want to be fat, dont eat fat”.
Easier said than done!
Rupert
CharlieFrancis.com
“If it was easy, everybody would be doing it” Francis Morgan “Daley” Thompson.
“That’s how you run a World record!”
Powell