I’m grinding towards a kinda tough fitness goal right now, and so I’m always poking around for little reminders and galvanizers to keep me focused. Some quotes in the bank that are great to run through one’s mind while staring at the bar in the squat rack at 6am:
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
– Edward Gibbon
Hesiod, the Greek historian, noted, “Observe due measure, moderation is best in all things.” Yeah, but what could Hesiod bench press? Plato, noted for underperforming in the squat, said, “We should pursue and practice moderation.”
– Dan John
“If you always put limits on yourself and the things you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaus. But then you must not stay there. You must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
– Bruce Lee
Inspirational? Well, I find them to be so. But of course, those aren’t reasonably what is going through my mind when I’m about to duck under a heavy-ass weight. Usually, it’s closer to something like:
WHAT A SPLENDID PIE! PIZZA PIZZA PIE!
– Serj Tankian
I mean, who really ever waxes existential before 7am? (And hell, Tankian is downright eloquent when shoved up against, say, Tom Araya. They both get the blood up, though.)
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