Inspiring Quotes

by **ukdudeinuk** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:57 am

This one is from Jason Becker. At the time he is speaking about, he had already been diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrigs Disease, but was not full paralyzed yet.

"One night I dreamed I was running. When I woke up I forgot I had a limp, so I walked totally normal until I remembered, "Oh, yeah, I have a limp". Then I immediately stumbled. That showed me that if you have control over your mind, you can do anything."

by **paul** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:18 am

"Hurt in practice so you don't bleed in battle."

by **joechan3** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:33 am

"Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses." ~Mark Rippetoe (Strong Enough?)

by **honcho84** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:48 am

NO bird soars to high if it soars with its own wings.

by **Shoebox** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:00 am

"Strength comes in numbers, and those numbers come in pounds" - Unknown

"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations." - James Madison

I personally thing this one would solve a lot of our problems here in the good 'ol US of A.

by **yokoshiogatame** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:32 am

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
       - Anonymous
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
       - Anonymous
Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.
       - Georgette Mosbacher
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart – the best brain.
        - Robert Ingersoll

by **Jim Slade** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:51 am

"Weakness is a crime" Bennar McFadden.
"there is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift" Jon Pall Sigmarsson
That last one is written over my deadlift platform. It's very inspiring, even when you remember he died just after deadlifting. What a way to go, cowboys might want to die with their boots on but i'll go with a bar in my hands.

by **Mehdi** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:03 pm

"We have not spent the last 65 million or so years finely honing our physiology to watch Oprah. Like it or not, we are the product of a very long process of adaptation to a harsh physical existence, and the past couple centuries of comparative ease and plenty are not enough time to change our genome. We humans are at our best when our existence mirrors, or at least simulates, the one we are still genetically adapted to live. And that is the purpose of exercise.” Mark Rippetoe

by **Shoebox** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:19 pm

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. - Kahlil Gibran

by **yokoshiogatame** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:31 pm

"It's better to regret doing something than to regret not doing it" again I'm not sure who said this, it was either, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes or Morgan Freeman, hmm, thinking about it now I think it was Morgan.

by **honcho84** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:23 pm

Anything worth doing is worth doing right- Hunter S. Thompson

by **oi_joe** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:22 pm

if you don't start you'll never finish.

me mum

by **mutt** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:02 pm

Personal favorite, as it applies to so much.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill

by **oi_joe** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:34 pm

good stuff Mutt, churchie was dynamite

by **jdurando** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:29 pm

" I cant wait till you're old and weak so I can hold a pillow over your head and kill you while you are sleeping, you rotten bastard"
My Loving Wife -

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