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| "Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it." "A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.” STEVE PREFONTAINE LIFE LESSONS For me cross-country is the truest sport, the rest are just games. Football, soccer, basketball are merely games in which there is room enough for only one winner and one loser. Granted in cross-country someone always walks away with the gold, but there are never any losers, not then, not now, and not ever. Cross-country is not a glamorous sport. I've never seen a grandstand near a finish line, nor heard a cheerleader, unless you count my mom. There is little fame for a runner, only the personal satisfaction of knowing you gave your all. I don't run for fame or glory, you can't with three hundred other girls on the starting line. Each runner has her own goals, hopes, and dreams... I run because the sport got a hold of my heart, a grasp five thousand times stronger than life. The fall leaves, and the wind that blows among them beckoned me to run with them, an invitation I could hardly refuse. I run because I love to feel my head spinning in all directions after an impossible practice, because I love to hear my teammates cheer for one another, because I love to see personal goals set and reached, but, most of all, I run because I love to finish in the pouring rain. Running is a metaphor for life. I've learned a lot about myself during the long hours of practice...I learned you can give 110%, set goals and still not reach them. I've learned sometimes when the pain is intolerable, you have to swallow your pride, grit your teeth, silence the tears, and run. I've learned to stick with it, and keep trying, long after everyone else has abandoned the cause. I've learned there are no failures, only temporary setbacks. I've learned that the perfect team often loses, and occasionally the underdog triumphs. I've learned that teammates have an invisible bond with each other, a bond that can never be broken, a bond of dedication, love, and respect. I've learned that some goals are so worthy it's glorious even to fail. The same is true about life...It rarely goes the way you hoped it would, but you have to make the best of it, adjust, and move on. There is a lesson to be learned in every victory, and every defeat whether it be on or off the course. Running has taught me above all that winning comes from within. That I don't have to prove anything to anyone except myself. that I don't need praise from others when I'm proud of myself. That I can walk away a winner, when the team hasn't won, and first place was a long way off. -a runner ________________________________________________________________________________________ FROM CARL LEWIS DIARY! “I want to win as much as ever. Maybe even more. I still turn to one of my favorite quotes as an injection of fire: “All athletes should bear in mind that they are competing not with other athletes but with their own capacities. Whatever I have already achieved, I have to go beyond.” And I will. “Two more weeks,” he said. One more competition. One. Maybe it seems like you’ve already accomplished everything you want. Maybe none of this seems like it matters right now. But these Olympics are something you’ll have the rest of your life to think about. You don’t want to be looking back with any regrets! “No matter what you do, you’re always going to have my support, you know that. But I want you to think about something. If you don’t think it’s enough anymore to just go out and compete for yourself, then do it for those of us who can’t compete. Do it for those of us who care about you but can’t compete.” ________________________________________________________________________________________ "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." --Herb Caen __________________________________________________________________ "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good." "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." Jack London American Author __________________________________________________________________ “Come to the edge.” “We can't. We're afraid.” “Come to the edge.” “We can't. We will fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. __________________________________________________________________ When things go wrong as they sometimes will; When the road you're trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low, and the debts are high And you want to smile, but have to sigh; When care is pressing you down a bit- Rest if you must, but do not quit. __________________________________________________________________ Don't Quit," Author Unknown Success is failure turned inside out; The silver tint of the clouds of doubt; And you can never tell how close you are It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit- It's when things go wrong that you must not quit. __________________________________________________________________ Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. __________________________________________________________________ Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. __________________________________________________________________ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while DARING GREATLY so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. __________________________________________________________________ The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. Charles Swindoll __________________________________________________________________ The uniqueness of cross country is that everyone can win in this highly competitive sport. Although there is only one individual who crosses the finish line first in each race, almost every athlete who toes the line wins in some manner. How can that be? Simply put, each and every runner has a challenge when the gun goes off. For some, it may be finishing without stopping. For others, it may be acheiving a specific time. Team placement is important to others, and to the very elite, placement in the race can determine success. Each and every individual in the race may achieve stardom within the scope of their race. __________________________________________________________________ A SPECIAL BREED Have absolutely no doubt about it, cross country runners are as mentally strong, pure athletes as you will find. Even though the sport of cross country isn't as popular as football or basketball, or as covered by the local media as baseball, Cross country runners are a rare breed of athletes. I mean think about it, what kind of person goes out and trains by running 3-8 miles daily for a mentally and physically draining 2 or 3 mile race. Theoretically it is very simple, get to point A to point B first. That's it. The work and training though, that a runner goes through is to say the least admirable. Byrd High School cross country runners train during the summer and in the hot Louisiana sun in the months of August through October to find that personal achievement one feels after a long run, for their health, for fun (yes for fun, as crazy as it may sound in your mind) and to represent their school. For the most part, you will find cross country runners in the top of their academic class, with minds as great as their bodies. Not trying to sound silly with that last sentence but it's true. You will rarely hear of a cross country runner being put on academic probation, suspended from school, or fighting with teammates. The reason for this is very simple. Like stated before, it takes a special person to go out and train 3-8 miles. To train like that a person must be mentally strong and have a sense of discipline much higher then their peers. I hope this article has if nothing else given you the reader a little more respect for those students you see running cross country... __________________________________________________________________ Helmer, a former scout, is running to warn the settlers at German Flats of an impending attack (directed by British agents) from the Mohawk Indians. Trailed by a pack of running warriors, the scout has plenty of motivation to run fast. The Indians have been trying to run him down (over woodland trail and across brooks) with "surge" tactics- one man sprinting up at a time, while the other warriors pace themselves until it's their turn. "As he chanced a backward glance, he saw that the Indians were going to try to run him down now. The new man was there and it was evident that he was their best man... The Indians legs moved with great rapidity. He had already taken his tomahawk from his belt as if he were confident of being able to haul upon the white man. The gesture gave Adam the incentive he needed. He was enraged, and he took his rage out in his running... It was the greatest running the Indian had ever seen. He knew he was licked, and he started to slow up very gradually. By the time Adam hit the woods, The Indian had stopped and sat down by the roadside. When Adam looked back from the woods, the Indian wasn't even looking at him. He was all alone in the clearing and he was futilely banging the ground between his legs with his tomahawk. Adam knew he had made it. He did not stop, nor did he let down quickly on his pace. All he had to race now was time. He would have laughed if he could have got the breath for it. Time? Time, hell!" Which goes to show there are, in fact, some cross country races that you just can not afford to lose. __________________________________________________________________ NOTE OF ENCOURAGEMENT... Persistence is key to success. 1. Set a goal that demands your best 2. Develop a burning desire to make it a reality 3. Keep your eye on the goal 4. Refuse to listen to negative criticism 5. Surround yourself w/ encouraging friends 6. In any defeat, look for a personal lesson 7. Practice self-control 8. Believe you can reach your goal 9. For people of Faith... Rely on God to enable you 10.Know that God will never give up on you __________________________________________________________________ Every sport has its own unique quality which makes it special to its participants. But the magic of cross country seems to weave a spell. The bond between cross country runners passes over school boundaries and over time. Twenty years from now, you will meet someone who has run the same course as you did in high school. Immediately, you will have an understanding of the person's accomplishment. Immediately, you will remember the excitement and joy of your cross country experience. Once you have fallen under it's spell, you will carry the magic of cross country with you for a lifetime. Cross country is a friendly sport. While this is not acceptable in most of the sports world, it is a unique quality of this great sport. There is no easy way to be a successful cross country runner and almost every participant in the sport is aware of the work ethic needed in order to climb that steep hill, burn down that long back stretch or fly around that wooded corner. Cross country runners wear a badge of accomplishment with pride, regardless of where they fit on the scale of finishers. __________________________________________________________________ “My attitude is never be satisfied, never enough, NEVER! The girls, they must be little tigers, clawing, kicking, biting, roaring to the top. They stop for one minute – POOF! – they are finished. Bela Karolyi “Aggressiveness is a vital asset of the world’s greatest athletes. However, it’s even more important to the average athlete. Attack your competition in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you’ll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a athlete.” Greg “The Shark” Norman “The trouble with being number one in the world is that it takes something of a driving, perfectionist mentality to attain that position in the first place, so that once you achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it. Once you become number one, your main thought is to protect that, to get better still, to stay ahead of number two. It’s unfortunate, but almost by definition, if you are the best, if you are the champions of the world, you can’t take much pleasure in it – or otherwise you couldn’t be the best.” Billie Jean King “The more success one achieves, the more pressure there is that goes with it, and I accept it. I’d sure rather have the pressure of success that the lack of pressure that goes with anonymity.” Roger Clemens “I play hard, I play in pain because I want to pour it out for the team…When you’ve been playing the game all your life you realize the ultimate compliment comes from your teammates, the fellows with whom you not only play but also share both the good and bad times. When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror – win or lose – and know I gave it everything I had, that I didn’t let anyone down. That’s my number one priority. I want to know that I played the game straight from the heart.” Joe Montana “Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you” Leo Durocher “To win you have to risk loss.” Jean-Claude Killy “When you have someone in trouble, you have to put him away. If you don’t you’ll just give him a shot of confidence and he’ll come back and knock your head off. Anybody who has competed in any sport, or in life, will tell you that.” Dick Butkus “To be good, a athlete has to take chances. They guy who has confidence and pushes it to the limit, that’s the real athlete.” Mario Andretti THERE IS ANOTHER KIND OF HERO [ Bill Lyon, written circa 1979, Philadelphia Inquirer... ] A cold wind blew the golden leaves across the hard ground. They made a rasping sound, like a death rattle. It was a sound that matched his breathing. Harsh and grating and painful. The sweat was frozen in crystal crusts at the end of his hair that flopped each time he took another stride and his feet fell heavily, jarringly, on the ground. He wore sneakers that were tattered and shredded from the shrapnel of a thousand small pebbles over which he had run. His sweatpants were gray. It was a color that matched his complexion. His arms drooped with exhaustion, like the flowers bending to give way to winter, and his was a lost, hopeless cause. For the winner was already across the finish line, far ahead, out of sight. And the other runners had long ago left him behind. His legs screamed at him to stop. His scorched lungs pleaded for rest. Even his socks seemed to fly at half-mast around his ankles. soiled flags of surrender. Still, he ran. In the autumn of our dreams, we are all quarterbacks. We are cunning and graceful and when we step into the huddle everyone bends forward eagerly and the crowd rises expectantly because it knows we will deliver the bomb just as the clock blinks down to zero. Ah, but that is in the autumn of our dreams, not in the winter of out reality. You want to know about reality? Then go watch the other autumn sport. It is called cross- country. Watch it and you will know what they mean when they speak of the loneliness of the long distance runner. Cross-country runners don't get scholarships. Or no-cut contracts. Or offers to endorse deoderant or panty hose or coffee or cars. Cross-country runners get shin splints and blisters on their feet and runny noses and watery eyes. One thing more. They get a special kind of self-satisfaction that few of us are ever privileged to experience. Oh, it is not from winning. It is merely from finishing, from ever going out there in the first place and running through puddles and briar patches and up hills and down hills and telling lies to your legs, and running on even when the others pass you, one-by-one, and geez, don't they ever get tired, don't they have a chest that's on fire, don't they ever get the dry heaves, and who cares anyway because there's no crowd, no cheerleaders, just hard ground and ugly ol' trees with no leaves and some guy driving by a car, honking his horn and grinning like an idiot, and oh God, why don't I just slow down and walk for a little ways? That, friends, is reality. Oh, us silly damn sports writers, we get all caught up in down-and-outs and slam-dunks and power-play goals and a frost-bitten World Series and sometimes we get the notion that what comes out of the mouth of some semi-literate who is a millionaire only because his glands went beserk at an early age ranks right up there in importance with the Dead Sea Scrolls. So we tend to dismiss things like cross-country as "minor" sports, and besides, who the hell knows how to read a stopwatch past the 4-minute mark anyway? So in our jock fantasies, the hero is the guy who scores the winning touchdown. But that is not reality. Reality is the kid you'll see when you're driving through a part or past a golf course, the kid with the stocking cap and the sweat-stained sneakers, loping along way behind the field, his eyes rolling wildly, this hypnotic trance of pain and puzzlement contorting his face. Maybe he will not be able to put into words exactly why he runs. Maybe he will mention something about "gutting it out" or pushing through the pain barrier or running on because he has this curiosity that drives him to discover just how much he is capable of... or not capable of. That can be the harshest kind of reality, and anyone who is willing to confront it, then he is, in the truest, purest sense, an athlete. EXCERPT from Running with the Buffaloes To purchase "Running with the Buffaloes" by Chris Lear...google the book title or author's name. ----------- t’s go time. They nod and slap hands with one another, wordlessly expressing their hopes, their prayers, and their brotherhood. 94 days and thousands of miles since they convened at Kitt Field on an 88 degree afternoon, they await the starters call. All that remains is thirty minutes to “man up” and take the pain, one last time. They are not afraid… --------- Wetmore views camp as his opportunity to create a rapport between the staff and the athletes that will make work and trust easier down the road. More importantly, Wetmore sees the trip as the opportunity to start creating a synergy amongst the members. If successful, at season’s end, the sum of the parts will be grater than the whole. Synergy - The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects. Wetmore also looks to camp to set the tone for the season. “This is when everyone looks each other in the eye and realizes we’re all here to do one thing in common: to train and be righteous. This is where they’ll make this unspoken agreement.” Righteous - Morally upright; without guilt or sin - In accordance with virtue or morality. --------- But first, there is other business to attend to. After showering, the men and women gather together for the team-only meeting in the hotel’s conference room. It is understood by the captains that they are to discuss and set the season’s objectives. --------- “If your not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination” “We want to make sure that we are all on the same page, that we are all fully invested.” More to the point What are our priorities?” -------- What is interesting is the element of choice. It is ingenious of Wetmore that he does not dictate what they will be shooting for, but that he lets them decide what they hope to achieve. It is their choice. Once they elect to aim high, they are effectively empowering Wetmore to train them as hard as he sees fit to take them to that level. If they complain, he has but to remind them that they are the ones who decided they wanted to excel, he is merely following their prerogative. “Mark gives us the decision. Hey, if you want to go out on Saturday night and party and drink, fine, practice is at 8 m.m. Most people here want to be the best at what we do. We’ve chosen. We don’t want to live a lifestyle of partying. Maybe that’s why we fit so well with Mark. He doesn’t want to party either. He encourages us to make our own decisions in running and in life…That’s why this team is so righteous outside of running. -------- The decision to sacrifice for running is not Goucher’s alone. It is a collective decision. The road ahead will be tough, and they understand that they will need to lean on each other to get through the season. Creating and cementing the relationships that will enable them to survive is why they have camp. We’re not here for training, we’re here to hang out and be friends, because friendship is the foundation of our team. When the foundation is friendship. It makes it a hell of a lot easier to get through the season.” “When we come together as a group we’ll be way stronger than as individuals.” ------- Inevitably there will be some strong personality conflicts during the season, “still, you don’t have to hang out, as long as you’re serious two hours a day.” -------- Already, the unspoken agreement is there; they are committed to doing what it takes to win the national title. “This meeting is for the coaches…it doesn’t show how dedicated we are.” You do your talking with your feet. ---------- We want to get over the hump of being top five. Until we win once, it’s kinda elusive… Excellence is expected. # 65 ESPN BEST SPORT MOVIE QUOTES "If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you." Million Dollar Baby #49 ESPN BEST SPORT MOVIE QUOTES "I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure." Chariots of Fire #42 ESPN BEST SPORT MOVIE QUOTES . "If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says. At the end of the game, in my book, we're gonna be winners." Hoosiers #35 ESPN BEST SPORT MOVIE QUOTES "Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down, because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn't one more thing that you could've done. Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart? If you can do that, gentlemen, then you're perfect." Friday Night Lights #8 ESPN BEST SPORT MOVIE QUOTES "You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game -- life or football -- the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the f------ difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!" Any Given Sunday Honorable Mention - ESPN BEST SPORT MOVIE QUOTES Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in "Rocky": "I can't beat him. But that don't bother me. The only thing I want to do is to go the distance, that's all. Because if that bell rings and I'm still standing, then I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I wasn't just another bum from the neighborhood." Rocky --------- I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. --John Robinson If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. --Lou Holtz TARELLO'S FAVORITE SPORTS MOVIES & QUOTES FROM THOSE MOVIES LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE QUOTES Bagger Vance: I hear you lost your swing. I guess we got to go find it. Rannulph Junuh: I can't do it, Bagger. It was too long ago! Bagger Vance: No it wasn't. It was just a moment ago. Bagger Vance: Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered. ROCKY Rocky: I can't do it. Adrian: What? Rocky: I can't beat him. Adrian: Apollo? Rocky: Yeah. I been out there walkin' around, thinkin'. I mean, who am I kiddin'? I ain't even in the guy's league. Adrian: What are we gonna do? Rocky: I don't know. Adrian: You worked so hard. Rocky: Yeah, that don't matter. 'Cause I was nobody before. Adrian: Don't say that. Rocky: Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood. ROCKY II [to Apollo, about a rematch with Rocky] Duke: He's all wrong for us, baby. I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you. Now we don't need no man like that in our lives. Mickey: Hey Rock. It's three in the morning. I went up to your house there and they told me you was here. It's a 3:00am kid. You know that Adrian, she's a good girl. Me, you know I'm sorry for both of ya. There's nothing I can do about it. Except uh I wanna tell you this once and then uh I ain't gonna say it again. But Rock you got another shot. This is the second shot. At uh I don't know the biggest title in the world, and you're gonna be swappin' punches with, with the most dangerous fighter in the world. And just in case you know your brain ain't workin' so good. All this happens pretty soon and you ain't ready. You know you're no where near in shape. So I say for God's sake. Why don't you stand up and fight this guy HARD? Like you done before that was beautiful! But don't lay down like this! Like uh I don't know like some kind of mongrel or something. Cause he's gonna kick your face in pieces! That's right! This guy doesn't just wanna win you know, he wants to bury ya, he wants to humiliate ya, he wants to prove to the whole world that you was nothin but some kind of freak the first time out. He said you were a one time lucky bum! Well now I don't wanna get mad in a biblical place like this. But I think you're a hell of a lot more than that kid! A hell of a lot! But now wait a minute if you wanna blow this thing if you wanna blow it then damn it I'm gonna blow it with ya. If you wanna stay here I'll stay with ya. I stay with ya. I'll stay and pray. What do I got to lose? ROCKY III Apollo Creed: Now, when we fought, you had that eye of the tiger, man; the edge! And now you gotta get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning. You know what I mean? Rocky Balboa: Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are! Apollo Creed: If you stand toe-to-toe with this bum, he'll kill you. It doesn't take a man to stand there and get your head beat off...! He's just a man, Rock, so be MORE man than him! Go get him; Eye Of the Tiger! ROCKY IV Adrian: It's suicide. You've seen him, you know how strong he is. You can't win. Rocky: Oh, Adrian. Adrian always tells the truth. No, maybe I can't win. Maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he's got. But to beat me, he's going to have to kill me. And to kill me, he's gonna have to have the heart to stand in front of me. And to do that, he's got to be willing to die himself. I don't know if he's ready to do that. I don't know. Duke: Hey, Champ. Rocky: Hey. Duke: Can I come up? Rocky: Yeah sure. Duke: Some weather we're having here huh? Rocky: Yeah it's pretty rough. Duke: But it's perfect for what you gotta do it's good. Toughen you up. Rocky: I guess. Duke: I know you think you're gonna have to do everything by yourself but you know I'll be with you. Rocky: Yeah Duke: Apollo was like my son. I raised him. And when he died a part of me died. But now you're the one. You're the one that's gonna keep his spirit alive. You're the one that's gonna make sure that he didn't die for nothing. Now you're gonna have to go through hell. Worse than any nightmare you ever dreamed. But in the end, I know you'll be the one standing. Rocky: I'll try. Duke: You know what you have to do. Do it. Do it. Rocky: Thanks, Duke. Duke: All your strength, all your power, all your love. Everything you've got. Right now! RUDY Fortune: You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have nearly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football team in the land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. Dan Devine: You already know this but this is the most important game of your lives, no excuses do the work. Our lady of victory [all] - PRAY FOR US. Pete: Well, you know what my dad always said, Having dreams is what makes life tolerable. ANY GIVEN SUNDAY Tony D'Amato: That's what a leader's about: sacrifice. The times he's gotta sacrifice because he's gotta lead, by example. Not by fear and not by self- pity. Tony D'Amato: I dont know what to say really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished. We're in hell right now gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the s--t kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time.You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the f---in difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! Now I can't do it for ya, I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I cant even stand the face I see in the mirror. I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life any more it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team gentlemen, and either, we heal as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is. Now what are you gonna {ALL}WIN! DAYS OF THUNDER [During a pit stop.] Harry Hogge: Alright. While we're still under a caution, I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car. Cole Trickle: Hit the pace car? Harry Hogge: Hit the pace car. Cole Trickle: What for? Harry Hogge: Because you've hit every other god damned thing out there, I want you to be perfect. Tim Daland: And Harry, I know you're great, you know you're great, but if the guy in the car doesn't trust you, we're never gonna win a damn race. TIN CUP Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy: Greatness courts failure. Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy: You why I hit that shot again? I hit it again because that shot was a defining moment, and when a defining moment comes along, you define the moment... or the moment defines you. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME [repeated line - his trick for concentration] - Billy Chapel: Clear the mechanism. Vin Scully: After 19 years in the big leagues, 40 year old Billy Chapel has trudged to the mound for over 4000 innings. But tonight, he's pitching against time, he's pitching against the future, against age, against ending. Tonight, he will make the fateful walk to the loneliest spot in the world, the pitching mound at Yankee Stadium, to push the sun back into the sky and give us one more day of summer. Billy Chapel: I don't know if I have anything left. Gus Sinski: You just throw whatever you got, whatever's left. The boys are all here for you. We're gonna be awesome for you right now! HOOSIERS Jimmy Chitwood: I play, coach stays. He goes, I go. (Note From Tarello - TOO BAD ALL AREN'T THIS LOYAL) Coach Norman Dale: My practices aren't designed for your enjoyment. Coach Norman Dale: If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners. CLICK HERE TO HEAR Coach Norman Dale: You know, in the ten years that I coached, I never met anybody who wanted to win as badly as I did. I'd do anything I had to do to increase my advantage. Anybody who tried to block the pursuit of that advantage, I'd just push 'em out of the way. Didn't matter who they were, or what they were doing. But that was then. You have special talent, a gift. Not the school's, not the townspeople, not the team's, not Myra Fleener's, not mine. It's yours, to do with what you choose. Because that's what I believe, I can tell you this: I don't care if you play on the team or not. [about Jimmy Chitwood] Myra Fleener: You know, a basketball hero around here is treated like a god, er, uh, how can he ever find out what he can really do? I don't want this to be the high point of his life. I've seen them, the real sad ones. They sit around the rest of their lives talking about the glory days when they were seventeen years old. Coach Norman Dale: You know, most people would kill... to be treated like a god, just for a few moments. REMEMBER THE TITANS Coach Boone: Now I may be a mean cuss. But I'm the same mean cuss with everybody out there on that football field. I don't give a damn about how sensitive these kids are, especially the black kids. You ain't doin' these kids a favor by patronizing them. You crippling them; You crippling them for life. Coach Boone: According to Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power! Well that football field out there tonight, that's our universe. Let's rule it like Titans! Coach Boone: This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. Coach Yoast: You make sure they remember, FOREVER, the night they played the Titans! CRIMSON TIDE (NOT SPORTS MOVIE BUT HAD TO PUT QUOTE IN) CLICK HERE TO SEE THE CLIP Capt. Ramsey: Little ducks, there's trouble in Russia. So they called us. And we're going over there and bringing the most lethal killing machine ever devised. We're capable of launching more firepower than has ever been released in the history of war -- for one purpose alone: [To] keep our country safe. We constitute the front line and the last line of defense. I expect and demand your very best. Anything less -- you should've joined the Air Force. This might be our Commander-in-Chief's Navy, but this is my boat. And all I ask is that you keep up with me. And if you can't, that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass. Capt. Ramsey: Mr. COB! Chief of the Boat: Yes, sir? Capt. Ramsey: You're aware of the name of this ship, aren't you Mr. COB? Chief of the Boat: Very aware, sir! Capt. Ramsey: It bears a proud name, doesn't it, Mr. COB? Chief of the Boat: Very proud, sir! Capt. Ramsey: It represents fine people. Chief of the Boat: Very fine people, sir! Capt. Ramsey: Who live in a fine, outstanding state. Chief of the Boat: Outstanding, sir! Capt. Ramsey: In the greatest country in the entire world. Chief of the Boat: In the entire world, sir! Capt. Ramsey: And what is that name, Mr. COB? Chief of the Boat: Alabama, sir! Capt. Ramsey: And what do we say? {CROWD} Go Bama! FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS CLICK HERE TO SEE THE CLIP Coach Gary Gaines: [half-time speech] I want you to take a moment, and I want you to look each other in the eyes. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen here in just a few minutes. I want you to close your eyes, and I want you to think about Boobie Miles, who is your brother. And he would die to be out there in that field with you tonight. And I want you to put that in your hearts. Boys my heart is full. My heart is full. GI JANE Master Chief John Urgayle: Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain? Lt. Jordan O'Neil: Hell no! Master Chief John Urgayle: It lets you know you're not dead yet! HOOSIERS Coach Norman Dale: All of you have the weekend. Decide whether or not you want to be a part of this team or not, under the following condition. What I say when it comes to this basketball team is the law, absolutely and without discussion. Coach Norman Dale: I would hope you'd support who we are, not who we are not. These six individuals have made the choice to work, the choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line twenty three nights for the next four months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team. CLICK HERE TO HEAR "Miracle" Look, I can give you all a load of crap about how how you're a better team than they are, but that's exactly what it would be. And everyone in this room knows what people are saying about our chances. I know it. You know it. But I also know there is a way to stay with this team. You don't defend them -- you ATTACK them. You take their game and you shove it right back in their face. The team that is finally willing to do this is the team that has a chance to put them down. NHL [National Hockey League] won't change their game. We will. Rest of the world is afraid of them. Boys, we won't be.no one has ever worked hard enough to skate with the Soviet team for an entire game. Gentlemen, we are gonna to work hard enough. CLICK HERE TO HEAR Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here, tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with 'em. Tonight, we stay with 'em. And we shut them down because we can! Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players -- every one of ya. You were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time -- is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearin' about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em! This is your time! Now go out there and take it! CLICK HERE TO Self-Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence Credo I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London INDEPENDENCE DAY Will Smith - aka Captain Steven Hiller: [after crashing the alien spaceship by the Grand Canyon] *That's* what you get! Ha Ha! Look at you! Ya ship's all banged up! [shouts] Who's the man? Huh? Who's the man? Wait till I get another plane! I'm a line ya friends up right beside you! Where ya at, huh? Where ya at? [Hiller opens the spaceship, the alien screams, Hiller smacks him in the head] Welcome to earth. Will Smith - aka Captain Steven Hiller: Y'know, this was supposed to be my weekend off, but noooo. You got me out here draggin' your heavy ass through the burnin' desert with your dreadlocks stickin' out the back of my parachute. You gotta come down here with an attitude, actin' all big and bad... and what the hell is that smell? I could've been at a barbecue! But I ain't mad. --- I AM A WARRIOR I AM A WINNER I AM A RUNNER --- ATHLETE BY NATURE RUNNER BY CHOICE --- FEAR.... ...the emotion you feel when I step on the Track! --- I race with demons of doubt. With my past failures. With my injuries. With that unrelenting voice that tells me to stop. But I am a runner... and one thing will always be certain. I will be victorious! --- Whatever the challenge... Whatever the test... I know I can beat it... Because I'm the best! RUN! --- My Nerves are of iron.... My Body of steel... Do you think you're ready... For the Pain you will feel? --- PREVAIL Only those who will risk going far can possibly find out how far one can go! --- PERFORMANCE The difference between a successful person and others is Not a lack of knowledge, But rather a lack of Will! --- VICTORY VICTORY happens when ten thousand hours of training meets one moment of opportunity --- SUCCESS To succeed...you need to find something to hold on to... Somthing to motivate you... Something to inspire you! --- Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S. Patton He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958 Rocky Balboa "The Movie" "Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!" "You know all there is to know about fighting, so there's no sense us going down that same old road again. To beat this guy, you need speed - you don't have it. And your knees can't take the pounding, so hard running is out. And you got arthritis in your neck, and you've got calcium deposits on most of your joints, so sparring is out. So, what we'll be calling on is good ol’ fashion blunt force trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-iron, piledriving punches that will have to hurt so much they'll rattle his ancestors. Every time you hit him with a shot, it's gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. Yeah! Let's start building some hurtin' bombs!" - Duke - TOMBSTONE Doc Holiday *Make no mistake, its not the revenge he's after, its the reckoning. *Wyatt Earp is my friend. --Hell, I got plenty of friends. --I don't. *We never got to finish the game we started...Play for blood. -- I was just foolin about. -- I wasn't. -- Alright launger. Let's do it. -- Say when. *All right, let's finish it. -- Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals. *Doc: There is no normal life, there's just life, now get on with it. Wyatt: I dont know how. Doc:Sure you do. Say good-bye to me. Go out and grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Live every minute, live it right up to the hilt. Live Wyatt, live for me. Wyatt Earp *Okay you kurd, go back and tell them that the laws comin, you tell them that I'm comin'! You hear?! You tell them that I'm comin and HELLS COMING WITH ME!!! *christ, its like i'm playing cards with my brothers kids or something. Wht are you staring at? -- Just wanted to let you know you're sitting in my chair. -- Is that a fact? For a man that dont go heels, you run your mouth. -- No need to go heels get the bulge on a dub like you. -- Is that a fact? -- oh, thats a fact. Go ahead. Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens. -- I'm getting real tired of your mouth, mr! -- (slap) I said throw down boy! (slap) You gonna do something or just stand there and bleed? I didnt think so. Here milt. Hang it over the bar. *You called down the thunder, well now you got it! You see that? It says United States Marshall. I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it. So run you kerr. Tell all the other kerr's the law's comin! You tell 'em I'm comin', and hell's comin' with me, you hear...HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME!! *This isn't your problem Doc. You don't have to mix up in this -- That is a hell of a thing to say to me. *Wyatt: All I ever wanted was just a normal life. Doc: There is no 'normal' life, Wyatt. There's just life. 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