Favourite Motivational Phrases

[Becks]

Rightio everyone, I want your favourite motivational phrases, from the inspiring to the hugely ridiculous! I need about 40 of them, so do your worst!

[Spookster]

Go hard or go home!

[Scott]

I particularly detest "pain is weakness leaving the body".

[Scott]

And there's a few more of that sort here.

[mxhornet]

Just what I need right now. Thanks for the reminder of Pre and his words of wisdom !!

[Gnitworp]

Becks, you've quoted a good one already!

'Do your worst!'

[Harley]

When it was 2C outside and raining, and we wussy cyclists were sat huddled in a nice warm pub lingering over the dregs of our lunchtime pint, steadfastly putting off a chilly 40mile ride home in semi-darkness, 'Ant' used to stand up and say..
"Ok lads, let's go to work"

it worked every time... and it still does!

[Strider]

How about this little lot:

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

‘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.’ (Lance Armstrong)

‘The man who can drive himself further, once the effort gets painful, is the man who will win.’

'He who will not risk pushing beyond the comfort of his self-imposed boundaries... should not complain about the mediocrity of his existence'

'Lfe should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, in a pretty and well preserved body... but rather screeching to a halt by sliding in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and proclaiming... "Wow! What a Ride'

P.

[graeme]

"Somewhere, someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."

"I am happy to let you race up the first hill, knowing that I will race up the last."

"No, you can't"

[epocian]

'Quitters never win, winners never quit'

Bob Mathias - decathlete who was never beaten

[mharky]

[rocky]

there are no excuses

dare to be different

go to the edge

there are two 5:30s in every day (peter elliot)

If I'd even missed one session, I would have lined up with doubt and fear in my mind. What would happen if I lost the gold by one thousandth of a second, because there was a training session I skipped or didn't give my all to?
Instead, I lined up here knowing no-one had trained harder than me, and that gave me enormous confidence. (c. hoy aug 08)

I don't like losing, so I'm not going to (andy murray)

g.i.r.u.y.

[gingerflyer]

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail..

[PorkyFatBoy]

Motivational
You can train twice as hard as you think you can and ten times as hard as your mother thinks you can (Steve Hale, possibly quoting someone else)

Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats coming second (Rocky? - he certainly had it as his signature at one point)
Run fast. Find the beepy things.

Demotivational
One team, one dream – it just doesn’t work in the world of investment banking.

[Mrs H]

If you fancy something a bit less sweaty, how about:

"The more I practice, the luckier I get".

Gary Player.