Jeff Vanis' Blog

I was recently reading a post on Slowtwitch and decided to compile some of my favorite quotes from the thread.  Some are light-hearted while others are meant to inspire during those dark moments.  I would love to hear any that you guys may also have!

Motivational

• “You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime.” – Mark Allen
• At the end of your life you will not be saying ‘I just wish I’d spent more time sitting on my butt watching TV.’
• Tough times don’t last.  Tough people do.
• It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster.
• Pain is just weakness leaving the body.
• Anyone can work hard when they want to, champions do it when they don’t.
• If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way.  If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
• Athletes are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
• If you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.
• You can’t spell TRIUMPH without some TRI at the beginning and a big UMPH at the end.
• Shut up legs!
• Suck it up, Buttercup!
• Commitment is doing the things you said you’d do, long after the mood you said it in has left you.
• Swim like there’s no bike.  Bike like there’s no run.  And then run like you’re scared. – Luke Bell
• The faster you run, the sooner you’re done.
• Keep going – You will pass out before you die.

Crazy

• This sounded like an awesome idea 10 months ago!
• Some people consider the marathon the ultimate endurance event.  We consider it a cool down.
• Obsessed is a word the unmotivated use to describe the dedicated.

Funny

• I don’t do triathlons, I do triathletes.
• Sweat is your fat cells crying.
• I can out swim the cyclists, out bike the runners, and out run the swimmers. That usually gets me a solid 50% finish.
• When it gets hard, we find a rhythm and pound away.
• Go faster, Daddy.  Mommy wants to go to Hawaii.