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ViF - Featured Motivational Quotes


"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz - College Coach Great



"If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won the race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just to finish the race - it's up to you"
Dave Scott - Six Time Ironman World Champion

Showing posts with label Videos-Motivational. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Videos-Motivational. Show all posts

Monday Motivation - "How's your Attitude"

"How's your attitude?"
"Give me (you) your very best,
don't quit till you got
nothing left!"



Give it your best and you are the Winner!
    (If you don't see video open at VictoryIsFinishing.com)

Monday Motivation - "And then I got inspired"

Whatever your new journey may be, it always starts with just taking that first step.

"If you want to do it, all you have to do is do it."
                                               Victor Ben Davis

Just take that first step.

Ben shares his inspirational journey in "My 120 Pound Journey"



"On December 25th, 2008, I decided to get my life together. I weighed 360 pounds and was a miserable person.
Then I started jogging.
Then did a 5K.
The pounds started falling off.
I ran a 10K.
And a sprint triathlon.
Then I did a half-marathon.
I kept losing weight.
And kept running.
Then I did a full marathon.
I decided to keep going.
Then I did an Ironman.

If you want to do something with your life, if you really want to do it, just do it.
I promise that you can. You just have to do it.
And when you do, you’ll be happier for it."


Bendoeslife.tumblr.com

Monday Motivation - Why do you run?

Finishing is more than just crossing a line on the road.

A non-runner might ask, why do you run if it hurts?
Is it because...
Knowing you gave everything, means everything!

We all run for different reasons.

Why do you run?

Monday Motivation - Along the way you might fall down...

   A friend recently ran her first post injury race, after having to go through several long months of PT for a running injury. Her goal for the race was to just "Finish Strong".
   To spectators along the route she may not have looked like the trained athlete she is.
As she walked the water stops, other passing runners might think of the seconds she was giving away.
But if they knew of her journey they would of known this was part of the day's plan to reach her goal, to "Finish Strong".

   Most of us enjoy our sports for just that, enjoyment.
If we stumble and fall down along the way, and we all will, sometimes we need to be reminded it's just a sport, a game we love to play.

   To put life's setbacks in perspective view Nick Vujicic's video
   I Love Living Life. I am Happy.


In the video Victor Nick Vujicic shares with us these words...

"Along the way you might fall down, so what do you do when you fall down... you get back up"
"If you fail, are you going to try again?"

"It matters how you are going to finish."
"Are you going to Finish Strong?"

Nick Vujicic
lifewithoutlimbs.org


  
  

Monday Motivation - 90 year old Triathlete gives new meaning to "Age Grouper"

How can you not be motivated by Mary and Bill Stroebe, they are the ultimate example that

"Age is only a number" !    

"Mary became a triathlete in her late seventies (no excuses people!). She's completed over 12 sprint triathlons. She retired at age 90 and now fires the starting gun at her favorite event the Life Time Fitness triathlon in Minneapolis.
   At age 89 Mary went head-to-head with TV host Kelly Ripa in a timed triathlon in New York City, later receiving a Relly award from Regis and Kelly."
     Bio info shared by her friend, former neighbor, and Ironman Finisher Sara Cut Landolt



Mary and Bill Trailer from Andrew Napier on Vimeo.



Mary and Bill Teaser from Andrew Napier on Vimeo.

Team Hoyt (Dick and Rick) - "CAN"


Father completes Ironman triathlon with disabled son in tow.
Video Link

Background story (a must see) on Team Hoyt at -
Video Link