This is one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHvO8XyL1g

^^^This one is my favorite!!!  A couple of others...

"Suck it up, Buttercup"

"Pain is weakness leaving the body"

Gotta love Dylan Thomas!

This always gets me fired up:


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

"Pain is weakness leaving the body" - Marines
I Can.....

"Com ON ....WHAT'SSSS IN THE BOOOOX!!!"  - Brad Pitt in Seven

To do is to be. - Plato

To be is to do. - Descartes

Do be, do be do. - Sinatra

"NEVER GIVE UP, DON'T EVER EVER GIVE UP" 

Jimmy Valvano  1993 ESPY Speach, Former NC State Basketball Coach.  Passed away from cancer shortly after that speach but the Jimmy V Foundation was created and helps milllions today.  From a UNC fan!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?  Your playing small does not serve the world. - Nelson Mandella

"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high" - Ayrton Senna

"An Ironman is not made in 140.6 miles; an Ironman is forged through countless early morning wake ups, gallons of sweat, hundreds of miles of focus, and many months of self-discipline.  Like steel, an Ironman enters the fire, is softened, and beat down, and shaped, and molded and in the end is solid and strong.  Tomorrow, I will be an Ironman."  -unknown

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out"  -- Unknown

Quote in my sig is from 180 South... there are a bunch in that movie. Incredible (and short) MUST SEE movie.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. 
- Wayne Gretzky

With God all things are possible

If you think you can or can't, you're right

"Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right" - Henry Ford

"I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I'm the only one who can win it" - Prefontaine

and the one that became my mantra after I hit the wall on the run at Door County Triathlon when it was 97 degrees with 90% humidity...
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever" - Lance Armstrong

This reminded me of the following youtube clip:

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

But in all seriousness:

I think everything Coach Wooden said I take as inspiration, some of the best:

Woodenisms

"The journey is the destination."
Not sure  it's inspirational but I like it.

"always do what you are afraid to do" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
This one's on my Road ID

"Just keep stomping on that mountain and before you know it, the entire mountain is underneath you" -some dude I met on the Appalachain Trail

"Do or do not; there is no try" -Yoda

Edited by La Tortuga 2010-08-17 11:10 AM

"It never gets easier, you just go faster" Greg Lemond

Edited by cstoulil 2010-08-17 11:10 AM

The only difference between try and TRIumph is a little umph.

I work for a company in Denver Co called KompetitiveEdge and we are an extention of TYR swimming. They have a new ad out with this quote and I love it.

"Warning: Competitors in the rearview mirror are FARTHER AWAY than they appear."

Life's battles don't always go to the faster or stronger man. Soon or late, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

The commmon denominator in all your failed relationships is you!

"The difference between interest and commitment.......When your interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only RESULTS" ~not sure~

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."  - Friedrich Nietzsche

hahaha