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Vale Royal Athletic Club

 

 

 

 

 

Athletics Quotes

 

 

 

"A man cannot think deeply and exert his utmost

muscular force"

Charles Darwin

 

"There is a time to run and there is a time to rest.

It is the true test of the athlete to get them both right"

Noel Carroll

 

"You know you`ve got to exercise your brain just like

your muscles"

Will Rogers

 

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly"

Buddha

 

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

 Bell, Alexander Graham

 

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

 Anonymous

 

Winners make it happen, losers let it happen

 Unknown

 

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

 Churchill, Winston

 

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. 

Mark Twain

 

Attitude: A small thing that has a big effect

 Anonymous

 

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. - James R. Cook.

 

 

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.

 Buck, Pearl

 

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses . . . on your powers, instead of your problems.

 Paul J. Meyers

 

All things are difficult before they are easy

John Morley

 

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee

 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

 Buddha

 

When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

 Bell, Alexander Graham

 

"There is Nothing Stronger Than The Heart Of A Volunteer"

Unknown

 

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

 Churchill, Winston

 

 

"Winners make goals, losers make excuses"

unknown

 

"I don`t wait for moods.  You accomplish nothing if you do that.

your mind must know it has to get down to work"

buck, pearl.

 

"one important key to success is self confidence.

an important key to self confidence is preparation"

arthur ashe

 

"the reason why worry kills more people than work

is that more people worry than work"

frost, robert

 

"keep in mind that success nor failure is never final"

Roger Babson

 

 

 

"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything"

Vince Lombardi

 

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success"

Charles Finlay

 

"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes"

Unknown

 

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary"

Unknown

 

"Success is never final and failure never fatal.  It`s courage that counts"

George Tilton

 

"Keep spiritually sound and be persistent.  Persistence is the key.

Just never stop believing in your dream"

Aquila, Deborah

 

"The minute you start talking about what your`e going to do

if you lose, you have lost!!!"

George Shultz

 

"My body is exercising and my mind is relaxing. 

I think these are the essentials of the sport"

Delano Meriwether

 

"Simply finishing is the first level of winning. 

For me, a slow race is better than an incomplete one"

Joe Henderson

 

"Overtraining is the biggest medical problem incurred by

athletes who lack the experience or discipline to cope

with their own enthusiasm"

Marty Liquori

 

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender"

Vince Lombardi

 

"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream"

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself"

American Proverb

 

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"

Albert Einstein

 

"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart"

John Heywood

 

"There are defeats more triumphant than victories"

Michel Montaigne

 

"A willing mind makes a light foot"

Thomas Fuller

 

 

 

 

 

"He who stops being better stops being good"

Oliver Cromwell

 

"A goal is a dream that has an ending"

Duke Wellington

 

 

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure"

Sven Goran Erikson

 

"The man who has no imagination has no wings"

Muhammand Ali

 

"There is no such thing as failure, only failure to try and try again"

Arnold Palmer

 

 

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent

 

Training and rest equals improvement

 

A picture is worth a thousand words

 

I hear, I forgot

I see, I remember

I do, I understand

(Ancient chineese Proverb)

 

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

 

 

"Faith can move mountains, doubt can create them"

 

 

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a

big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make"

 

 

"No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy

in the success of those under him"

W.A. Nance

 

 

"A man judges himself by what he feels he is capable of achieving. Others judge him by what he has achieved"

Unknown

 

 

"Don`t be afraid to fail.  Don`t waste energy trying to cover up failure.  Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge.  It`s ok.  If you`re not failing, you`re not growing."

H. Stanley Judd

 

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all."

Cervantes

 

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

Robert Schuller

 

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear"

Mark Twain

 

"You can do anything in this world if you`re prepared to take the consequences."

W. Somerset Maughan

 

"Progress always involves risk; you can`t steal second base and keep your foot on first"

Frederick Wilcox

 

"Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer"

Norwegian Proverb

 

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right."

Edward Simmons

 

"The happiness in your life is in direct proportion to the character of your thoughts"

Unknown

 

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"

James Joyce

 

"He who laughs, lasts"

Robert Fulghum

 

 

"If you lose hope, you lose everything"

 

"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday - all is well!!"

 

"Laughter lightens the cloudiest day"

 

"You`ll never know unless you try"

 

"A person always doing his or her best become a natural leader, just by example"

Joe DiMaggio

 

"Giving of oneself is another winning value...  It`s important to develop the ability of stepping into another person`s shoes.  I love being able to walk through life with the thought that 'I make a difference'."

Christel DeHaan

 

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life"

Mohammad Ali

 

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"

Helen Keller

 

 

 

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently"

Henry Ford

 

"Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood"

Marie Curie

 

"It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it possible"

Evelyn Underhill

 

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, but the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed"

 

"If we define a winner as someone who tries their hardest to do their best, then we can have a lot more winners"

Tom McNab

 

"If you can dream it, you can do it"

Walt Disney

 

"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one"

Elbert Hubbard

 

"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

Peter Drucker

 

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don`t try"

 

 

"If you want to earn respect, be the first to show it"

 

"If you think you can - you can"

 

"Never was good work done without much trouble"

 

"Laughter lightens the cloudiest day"

 

"Success is a journey, not a destination"

 

"Success comes in cans not can`ts"

 

"If you lose hope, you lose everything"

 

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"

 

"Attitude is just as important as ability to achieve success"

 

"One must eat to live, and not live to eat"

Moliere

 

"The daily habits of people have a great deal more to do with what makes them sick and when they die than all the influences of medicine"

Lester Breslow MD

 

"Don`t play sports to get in shape, get in shape to play sports!!!"

 

"Fitness can neither be bought nor bestowed. Like honour it must be earned"

 

"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we did`nt spend half our time wishing"

Alexander Wollcott

 

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence"

Calvin Coolidge

 

"You will never find time for anything.  If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

 

"Spirit... has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle"

 

"Any idiot can train himself into the ground, the trick is to work in training to get gradually stronger" 

Keith Brantly

 

"The introduction of resistance in the form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored"

Percy Cerutty