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[[old] dadams]

<!--QuoteBegin-PaulS+Feb 3 2005, 09:35 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(PaulS @ Feb 3 2005, 09:35 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://stripe.colorado.edu/~morristo/sisyphus.html' target='_blank'>Sisyphus</a><br /><br />"Sissypuss" you will have to figure out on your own.  <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><br />Thanks for the education Paul. Believe it or not, I never read Homer. <br /><br />Dwayne

[[old] PaulS]

The closest I've come to Homer, is hitting one with a bat, but I'm really good at Googling and Hotbotting. Hmm, I wonder what the censors will do with that. <br /><br />Ooops, stay on topic:<br /><br /><b>"Get to Work - You aren't being Paid to believe in the power of your Dreams"</b><br />A picture on my desk, showing an 8+ on water, given to me by my rowers after I had taken a job in the "real world".

[[old] PaulS]

“Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. When I was boxing I would set a goal for myself to demonstrate to other people what could be done, and to prove to myself that anything was possible when I set a goal then worked to achieve it. We create our own realities according to our thoughts and beliefs.” <br /><br />- Muhammad Ali

[[old] Coach Gus]

<b>A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.</b><br /><br />David Brinkley<br /><br />

[[old] SteveV]

Here's one to think about before a big race<br /><br />"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. <br /><br />You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide."

[[old] dadams]

<b>Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.</b><br /><br />- James Dean<br /><br /><b>Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.</b><br /><br />- Aldous Huxley

[[old] Ben Rea]

<b>"Row hard or else people will hate you, and most important, stay positive" </b> <br /><br />- Ben Rea <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

[[old] Hal Morgan]

When it comes down to it, are you going to go through the door. You do not know who gets to meet the Reaper -Us or Them. I don't have time to think about, will you follow me through the door. You just need to to know, I am going through the door. What a pure T rush it is.

[[old] ancho]

Let's see if I get the translation right:<br /><br />Better many and good than a few and bad ! <br />or was it:<br />Better few and many than good and bad ?

[[old] eparizeau]

Not sure she ever rows, but Mary Chapin Carpenter sings a line in "Shut Up and Kiss Me" that sometimes helps me push forward when I'm about half way through a 2k.<br /><br />"Talk is cheap and baby time's expensive,<br />so why waste another minute more<br />Life's too short to be so apprehensive..."<br /><br />(The tune is actually pretty good for rowing too... <a href="http://tinyurl.com/gnbf7)" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/gnbf7)</a>

[[old] tap]

<b>Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.</b><br /><br />- Vince Lombardi

[[old] mumbles]

"Pain, is just weakness leaving the body!"<br /><br />"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well!"<br /><br />"A true champion either wins or loses, there is nothing in between that really matters!"<br /><br />"No Pain, No Gain!"<br /><br />" If you want to be a champion, you must act like a champion, to act like a champion, you must win like a champion, to win like a champion, you must train like a champion, to train like a champion you must think like a champion and to think like a champion you must want it, more than anything else!!!!"<br /><br /><br />Owen 8)

[[old] Hal Morgan]

I am not much but, I'm all I think about. <br /><br /><br />Did you ever notice you don't have a problem when you are not thinking about it? <br /><br /><br /><br />Never hearing "are you going to be on the treadmill much longer? I have only 30 minutes for lunch." 8) <br /><br />

[[old] csabour]

"It's time to stop thinking about how hard rowing is.<br />It's time to start thinking about rowing hard."<br /><br />-The Shell Game<br /><br />"Take the easy days easy and the hard days hard."<br /><br />-iforgotwhosaidthis

[[old] holladay]

The difference between "try" and "triumph" is a little "umph"