Ready For Hard 10: Quotes

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Quote Of The Day - 04/10/10

"In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work is going on.
It is only the steeliest among us who can fight the urge to turn negative -
who instead will make contact and redouble her efforts.
Call it grace under pressure. Call it grit...call it excellence."
- Susan Casey, editor (Sports Illustrated)

Quote Of The Day - 26/08/10

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest.
Until your good is better and your better is best."
- Tim Duncan

Quote of The Day - 03/06/10

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

Quote Of The Day - 04/05/10

"What I do you cannot do; but what you do I cannot do...

But we can all do small things with great love.

And together we can do something wonderful."

- Mother Teresa

Quote Of The Day - 15/04/10

"Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals."
- Kieren Perkins

Quote Of The Day - 18/03/10

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be.

If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.

But when I believe I can, then I can acquire the ability to do it,

even if I didn't have it in the beginning."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Quote Of The Day - 10/02/10

"I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,

but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

Quote Of The Day - 21/01/10

"We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

- Aristotle

Quote Of The Day - 06/09/2009

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold.

They are made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

- Dan Gable

Quote Of The Day - 23/11/09

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly.

Relish the taste of competition - in having put forth the best within you."

- Henry J Kaiser

Quote Of The Day - 10/11/09

"To win the game, you don't have to be the most athletic or talented. To win, you must have the passion for the game, determination and complete faith in yourself and your team."
- Unknown

Quote Of The Day - 02/10/09

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

Quote Of The Day - 16/9/09

"Whatever you do, do with all your might."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Something To Ponder Over

A “dragonboater” once wrote a letter to SDBA and complained that it made no sense to go rowing every Sunday.

"I've gone for 20 years now" he wrote "and in that time I have done something like 2,000 hours of rowing. But for the life of me, I can't remember one single technique of them. So I think I'm wasting time and the coaches are wasting theirs by training us at all."

This started a real controversy in the "forum" column, much to the delight of the non-committal rowers...

It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 22,000 meals, but for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals.

But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone for dragonboat trainings, I would be less fit and competitive and have lesser friends than today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing.... Dragonboat training can bring you UP to something! It helps you see the invisible, believe the incredible and receive the impossible!

Thanks dragon boat for our physical AND mental nourishment!

By Coach (Kim Hwa)