Inspiration - what it takes

[Mrs H]

So! Who is this bloke with the breathing problem?

[andrew T]

why is it that when someone tries to post something meaningful and inspirational some people feel the need to pick it apart like some crazed english teacher. the point is that it it is about what it takes to get to the top. this is something that pantani did before he ultimately turned to drugs (although these wer largely recreational anyway and not performance enhancing i think). i personally thought it was a great post, better than the moaning crap that a lot of people post on here!!

[greywolf]

"this is something that pantani did before he ultimately turned to drugs (although these wer largely recreational anyway and not performance enhancing i think)."

um, he might have died of cocaine poisoning, but the disqualification from the 99 Giro was for failing a blood test (= EPO)

and previously he'd been found to have massively illegal red blood cell counts when in hospital after a crash in 95 (or maybe 96) - certainly before he won the Tour

shame, it's a nice quote

[graeme]

Troll

[krocks]

Quotes and passages like this are inspirational and motivational to some, dispiriting to some more, and just total guff to others. Take what you want out of it or simply ignore it.

Its got nothing to do with judging Marco Pantani, nor should it.

[J.Tullster]

I think that sums it up pretty well!
(note signature below, I find that pretty inspirational)

[Supersaint]

Cheers Kitch, i need inspiration like that more often, gonna hammer it tomorrow!

[Klebe]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt