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For a total of less than 3 matches a year, fewer than 40 minutes of fight time. I work out twice a day, five times a week, minus my rest days…I throw 125 lb balls against the wall, run with wheelbarrows full of rocks, spar wrestle etc.
Chuck Liddell (Crossfitter )
Merely wearing a uniform and reporting to work is not enough. The title of warrior is earned over a period of time through consistent attention to one’s craft, sustained effort, attention to one’s duties, AND in the service of others.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Proverbs 23:7
Warriors are fierce because their training is Fierce
Musashi
Rise Again
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Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
Gal 6:9
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Set in glowing emptiness
On the edge of time
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Like a floating river
Rain Rain Fall Fall
If you enjoy the quality, the substance, and the purpose of it all, then you can enjoy your life.
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Fight those who fight you with
Courage!
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Confucius
Higher Demand
Chance FAVORS the Operator.
TJ
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Everything
Everything that you need to succeed is usually right in front of your face. You just have to know when to recognize it.
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Cambell
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Stand Solidly
Have a vision not clouded by fear.
Cherokee Proverb
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life. ( enjoy the real treasures )
Joseph Cambell
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If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to beliving is the one you are living.
Joseph Cambell
The beginning is the most important part of the work
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
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Hard Work is one of the keys to success
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I will have NO Fear.
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I can do it. I will do it. No matter what
What’s important is not being like some other athlete, but being the best athlete I can be.
Experience tells you what to do; Confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith
I will make the pressure work for me.
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Like Minded
Training for the next battle usually consists of fighting the last battle over again.
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Even though, for discussion purposes, you can prescribe standard solutions to situations, the fact is that conditions in real battle are always different from the conditions used as examples.
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The standard solutions taught in training are best considered as starting points for discussion of alternatives. In other words, say to people:
“Start here and evolve according to circumstances.” Carefully consider how you might do this.
My Sword I give him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.
Jonh Bunyan
Morale is a state of mind. It is that intangiable force which will move a whole group of men to give their last ounce to achieve something, without counting the cost to themselves; that which makes them feel they are part of something greater than themselves.
Viscount Slim
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
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Courage is knowing what to fear. Living is seeing everthing that can be embraced.
What hangs in the balance is nowise in doubt; We know the event and we brave what we know.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus
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A man full of courage is also full of faith
Cicero
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I’m not afraid of the storm, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that; At least no one ever has done it” But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
Edgar A Guest
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven’s gloris shine, and faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Bronte
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Most people are too busy living life to ever put life in their living.
Doug Firebaugh
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Achievement
—Tan Zhixian
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No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one’s own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it.
Papyrus
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The past does not equal the future.
Because you may have failed a moment ago,
all day today,
or for the last six months,
or for the last sixteen years,
or for the last fifty years of your life
doesn’t mean anything.
All that matters is
what are you going to do now?
Anthony Robbins
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Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.
Alexander V. Suvorov
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What can a soldier do who charges when out of breath?
Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova
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The fight is won or lost far away from any witnesses. It is won behind the scenes, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
—Robert F. Kennedy
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“There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.”
—Japanese proverb
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Do not go timid..Faith and Friendship.
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“I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.”
Diane Nyad
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.”
Pope John XXIII
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“If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.”
Meredith Rainey Valmon
“In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the challenge head on is only about us–no one can touch that. If we win or lose this weekend, it will not make a difference in our lives. But why we play and how we play will make a difference in our lives forever.”
Beth Anders
Trust
When you give it, Nothing feels better
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So, while half the men worked, the others stood guard to protect them.
Neh.4:7-8
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Teamwork and Unity.
My great talent, the one that distinguished me the most,is to see the entire picture
distinctly
“Essayons” ( Let’s Try !! )_____________________________________________________________________________
Within every individual there is a secret self, a spiritual core rich in creative potential, that is responsible for our sudden insights, profound emotional response, and the release of creative energy.
This year remember you have that.
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Eva, Doug, Nicole
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“everything is impossible…till it ain’t.” -Then they call them records.
Crossfit in the Box
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
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When all hell is breaking loose around you, And you’re cold and your men are cold, Don’t look cold or act cold.
General Colin Powell
Goals
The establishment of a clear central purpose Or goal in life is the starting point of all success. All in ? All out.
Brian Tracy
“You can talk all you want about being in good shape until you do a few CrossFit workouts, and they you will realize – like I did – that what you have been doing is likely training strong points, rarely working on weak points, and training efficiency to such a degree that the workouts you do are less effective than they might be if you mixed energy modes, duration, and types, of work.”
- Mark Twight, Gym Jones
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When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes To the things that really matter… Then peace begins to settle onto our lives Like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.
Thomas Kinkade
The Kohai who has been tutored and taken care of by his Sempai becomes an ONJIN, a person under obligation, and as old Japanese adage goes, “ Life and Death are light as a feather, but obligation, obligation is heavy as a mountain.”
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If you don’t demand that your people maintain High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association? When you are on a team, you have to trust that your teammates are capable of playing their best .
Coach Lou Holtz
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
Christian Bovee
Character
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Coach Sposato
From the ground UP. All start at the bottom
The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be – Today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the
status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays
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Winners concentrate on winning; Losers concentrate on getting by.
John Maxwell
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Day or Night.
The most important factor in attaining a goal is the “lack of excuses” when failure comes.
Having failure linger….that my friends, is a problem.
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When the question is asked, “how can I get better, or get stronger in order to do pull-ups”, what do you think my answer is going to be?
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Underconfidence
Underconfidence breeds underachievement. We often fail to fully exploit our gifts because We don’t realize we have them.
Lou Holtz
Most of the important things in the world Have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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