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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
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Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.
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Paula White
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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
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Michael Moorcock (Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Eternal Champion, #11))
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Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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That's why I'm sorry. I'm sorry because you shouldn't have to be everything to me. I had you, but I'd forgotten that I had myself too. It's a new feeling, something I'm getting used to.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.
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Meb Keflezighi (Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-Distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream)
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Success is a decision, not a gift.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!
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T.F. Hodge (From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence)
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Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them."
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So, when I thought June might take you away, I didnβt know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didnβt have. Thatβs why Iβm sorry. Iβm sorry because you shouldnβt have to be everything to me. I had you, but Iβd forgotten that I had myself too.
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Marie Lu (Champion (Legend, #3))
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It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Compete like you cannot fail.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.
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George Alexiou
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Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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In the game of life;
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Either ways, we should always keep playing.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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If obstacles are large, jump higher.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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If not now, when?
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Act like a champion, and then become one.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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(Your) potential doesnβt mean shit if you donβt get off your ass and start working.
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Rishank Jhavar (Champion's Handbook: Meteoric guide for meteoric success)
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It is action that creates motivation.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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When a woman becomes a mother, she becomes a life giver, teacher, protector, champion, and pillar of strength. - Strong by Kailin Gow
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This is what Iβm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow
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Kailin Gow (Fade (Fade, #1))
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Key to his success was the mindset he championed. An optimist, Muhammad constantly sought new solutions to surmount obstacles and promote yusr (flow). He also insisted that people make the most of their limited time on earth, observing that βthe beginning of time is serenity (ridhwan), the middle of time is optimism for a better future (rahmah), and the end of time is accountability (βafw).
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Mohamad Jebara (Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait)
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We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.
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Jonathan Anthony Burkett (Fighting To Become Champions)
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Never underestimate the heart of a champion!
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Doc Rivers
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See it first in your mind, then become it.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
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Invest your energy in the things you can control.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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It's not what I can do; it's what I will do. If you wake up and try to help one person and change that person's life, every obstacle you face in front of you is worth it.
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Kyle Maynard (No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life)
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Out of frustrations, out of desperation, out of disappointments, out of mediocrity. out of idleness,out of limited insight, out of difficulties, out of insatiability, out of poverty, out of pain and the vicissitudes of life , so many people shall come to a conclusion that nothing is worth living for; not even what is solemn and sacred but, some shall always turn the woes of life into great land marks and indelible footprints worth emulating
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome.
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There's more to every tournament than just who wins... Every champion has a reason to compete, and they deserve to win. Even if they they don't make it out alive
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Amanda Foody (All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains, #1))
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But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself. One of my greatest joys is inspiring other people to perform at their best.
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I've always believed that anyone can achieve their dreams, regardless. I've always had this attitude about no excuses. A belief that I can go on and do what I need to do. To go on, to succeed, regardless.
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Lucky people will focus on whatβs in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what theyβre searching for.
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They donβt give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.
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To think is good. To obsess is bad.
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The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.
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E.E. Knight (Dragon Champion (Age of Fire, #1))
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Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Remember, if you donβt do anything β if you donβt change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want β then everything stays the same, nothing changes.
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Although you canβt go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.
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When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
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Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? Youβve got to be committed.
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If not you, who?
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It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
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Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say ββI gave up too soonβ.
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Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
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Jack Dempsey
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A champion always prepares to win.
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D.C. Gonzalez (The Art of Mental Training: A Guide to Performance Excellence (Collector's Edition))
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The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
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Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
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A champion is one who is remembered. A legend is one who is never forgotten.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.
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A star will shine in the midst of darkness.
A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt.
A camel will flourish in the midst of drought.
A diamond will form in the midst of pressure.
A champion will rise in the midst of hardship.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you canβt keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.
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These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.
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Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then itβs in you.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Tell me your thinking, and Iβll tell you what your life looks like.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.
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Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
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A champion never lets anything stand in his way.
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Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.
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Everyone falls, the only difference is champions get up.
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His method for taking the measure of a room was saying something definitive and outrageousββThese charts are bullshit!β or βThis deal is crap!ββand watching people react. If you were brave enough to come back at him, he often respected itβpoking at you, then registering your response, was his way of deducing what you thought and whether you had the guts to champion it.
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A champion is someone ho gets up,
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To deliver your own personal maximum, youβll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.
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Steve Backley (The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success)
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Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of othersβ.
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See it, feel it, trust it!
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The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.
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The greater the cross you bear the greater the crown you'll wear.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
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I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end.
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their madeup tales.
And so on.
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done.
If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.
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The multiverse has selected its champions β had selected you β and yet under the blazing suns, here we stand: self-seeking and imperfect, lacking in wisdom, lacking in courage, afraid of death and of pain; afraid of our choices and the consequences they bringββ
ββand you ask yourselves: if only I could be that one person that makes it all better; that stops the degrading of worldly values. If only I could be that brave person that brings out the good in the bad.
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Being a champion for all students means just that: all students. Not just ones who are likeable and want help but also the ones who might resist your efforts. Even then, your core values drive you to stay true to this belief. This unwavering hope and faith can be the model to inspire others to do the same for all students.
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The difference between a goal-directed individual and someone without goals is like the difference between a Wimbledon champion and a kid batting a tennis ball around on a court with no net, no opponent to bring out the best in him, and no way of keeping score.
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Pacifism is a psychological curiosity rather than a political movement. Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of violence, have ended by warmly championing Hitler and even toying with antisemitism. This is interesting, but it is not important. βPureβ pacifism, which is a by-product of naval power, can only appeal to people in very sheltered positions. Moreover, being negative and irresponsible, it does not inspire much devotion.
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Since the day he was born, he'd been defying the odds. Today was not the day to stop that trend. Unlike Ambrose, he wasn't about to give up or give in.
So long as there was breath in his body, there was life. So long as there was life, there was hope. And so long as there was hope, there was the possibility of victory.
Life wasn't about just getting by. It was about getting through, no matter what, and making the most of every minute.
A chill went down his spine as he remembered what his father had said to him. <>.
Nick Gautier would not be remembered as a coward or a villain. He was going out a hero and a champion.
And he would not go down without a vicious, vicious fight.
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...Spinozaβs Conjecture:βBelief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity.
The scientific principle that a claim is untrue unless proven otherwise runs counter to our natural tendency to accept as true that which we can comprehend quickly. Thus it is that we should reward skepticism and disbelief, and champion those willing to change their mind in the teeth of new evidence. Instead, most social institutions-most notably those in religion, politics, and economics-reward belief in the doctrines of the faith or party or ideology, punish those who challenge the authority of the leaders, and discourage uncertainty and especially skepticism.
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I personally believe mavericks are people who write their own rulebook.
They are the ones who act first and talk later. They are fiercely independent thinkers who know how to fight the lizard brain (to use Seth Godinβs term).
I donβt believe many are born, rather they are products of an environment, or their experiences.
They are usually the people that find the accepted norm does not meet their requirements and have the self-confidence, appetite, independence, degree of self reliance and sufficient desire to carve out their own niche in life.
I believe a maverick thinker can take a new idea, champion it, and push it beyond the ability of a normal person to do so. I also believe the best mavericks can build a team, can motivate with their vision, their passion, and can pull together others to accomplish great things. A wise maverick knows that they need others to give full form to their views and can gather these necessary contributors around them.
Mavericks, in my experience, fall into various categories β a/ the totally off-the-wall, uncontrollable genius who wonβt listen to anyone; b/ the person who thinks that they have the ONLY solution to a challenge but prepared to consider othersβ views on how to conquer the world &, finally, the person who thinks laterally to overcome problems considered to be irresolvable. I like in particular the third category.
The upside is that mavericks, because of their different outlook on life, often sees opportunities and solutions that others cannot. But the downside is that often, because in life there is always some degree of luck in success (i.e. being in the right place at the right time), mavericks that fail are often ridiculed for their unorthodox approach. However when they succeed they are acclaimed for their inspiration. It is indeed a fine line they walk in life.
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Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?β He shook his head. βMaybe. I donβt call it nobility, though. I think itβs our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant optimists. Weβre the emotional descendents of the caveman who stood defiant in the front of the wooly mammoth. We rebuild cities at the base of Vesuvius, get back on the bicycle when we fall off, whack that hornetβs nest every spring. Humans cheer for the couldnβt be, believe in the shouldnβt be. We love causes; the harder, the more lost they are, the more we love them. Is that nobility?Maybe. Maybe itβs a pernicious genetic defect that makes our species susceptible to shared delusion. Whatever it is, it keeps life interesting.
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I lost my second judo tournament. I finished second, losing to a girl named Anastasia. Afterward, her coach congratulated me.
"You did a great job. Don't feel bad, Anastasia is a junior national champion."
I felt consoled for about a second, until I noticed the look of disgust on Mom's face. I nodded at the coach and walked away.
Once we were out of earshot she lit into me. "I hope you know better than to believe what he said. You could have won that match. You had every chance to beat that girl. The fact that she is a junior national champion doesn't mean anything. That's why they have tournaments, so you can see who is better. They don't award medals based on what you won before. If you did your absolute best, if you were capable of doing nothing more, then that's enough. Then you can be content with the outcome. But if you could have done better, if you could have done more, then you should be disappointed. You should be upset you didn't win. You should go home and think about what you could have done differently and then next time do it differently. Don't you ever let anyone tell you that not doing your absolute best is good enough. You are a skinny blonde girl who lives by the beach, and unless you absolutely force them to, no one is ever going to expect anything from you in this sport. You prove them wrong.
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In interviews with riders that I've read and in conversations that I've had with them, the same thing always comes up: the best part was the suffering. In Amsterdam I once trained with a Canadian rider who was living in Holland. A notorious creampuff: in the sterile art of track racing he was Canadian champion in at least six disciplines, but when it came to toughing it out on the road he didn't have the character.
The sky turned black, the water in the ditch rippled, a heavy storm broke loose. The Canadian sat up straight, raised his arms to heaven and shouted: 'Rain! Soak me! Ooh, rain, soak me, make me wet!'
How can that be: suffering is suffering, isn't it?
In 1910, MilanβSan Remo was won by a rider who spent half an hour in a mountain hut, hiding from a snowstorm. Man, did he suffer!
In 1919, BrusselsβAmiens was won by a rider who rode the last forty kilometers with a flat front tire. Talk about suffering! He arrived at 11.30 at night, with a ninety-minute lead on the only other two riders who finished the race. The day had been like night, trees had whipped back and forth, farmers were blown back into their barns, there were hailstones, bomb craters from the war, crossroads where the gendarmes had run away, and riders had to climb onto one another's shoulders to wipe clean the muddied road signs.
Oh, to have been a rider then. Because after the finish all the suffering turns into memories of pleasure, and the greater the suffering, the greater the pleasure. That is Nature's payback to riders for the homage they pay her by suffering. Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses: people have become woolly mice. They still have bodies that can walk for five days and four nights through a desert of snow, without food, but they accept praise for having taken a one-hour bicycle ride. 'Good for you.' Instead of expressing their gratitude for the rain by getting wet, people walk around with umbrellas. Nature is an old lay with few suitors these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms she rewards passionately.
That's why there are riders.
Suffering you need; literature is baloney.
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