Inspirational Quotes

During a long ride you are inevitably going to go through some bad patches. You will either be tired, sore, hungry, thursty or all of the above. When those patches come through, and I hope they don't it is better to be prepared for them so that you can deal with them. There is an aspect of physical training that I hope we all have under our respective belts and a mental training so that when a bad patch comes around you know how to deal with it. Sometimes, when I am very tired or feeling spent I repeat little sayings like "Longer and stronger" or the "Longer I go the stronger I get". This all may sound strange but the power of the mind is not to be under-estimated.

Here are some quotes that I like. Please feel free to add others on the comment section.

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile." —Sir Wilfred Grenfell

"Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." —Helen Keller

"Life's strict rule is this: You get more of what you focus on. Ignoring this, we abandon our healthiest, concentrative energies and court emotional upheaval." —Marsha Sinetar

"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit" —Aristotle

"There's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way that you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat." —Tom Peters

"If you overtrained, it means that you didn't train hard enough to handle that level of training. So you weren't overtrained; you were actually undertrained to begin with. So there's the rule again: The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins."
- Floyd Landis

"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."
- Lance Armstrong

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali