A Taste of Inspiration

This is a selection of Inspiring Quotes gathered by Shelly for the team. As is her practice, Shelly gives us a quote every time we train together and every time we race together. Sometime, the quote she gives us before a race wins the mental game for us as we are racing.

Early in the season:
If you’re willing to declare, “I am an athlete”, even for a little while… your relationship with your body will change. Perhaps your posture will be the first transformation. Then your expectations. When think of yourself as an athlete, it might begin to seem perfectly normal-imperative, even to devote time each day to physical fitness… you’ll begin to feel competent to join a yoga class or bowling league or neighborhood Ping-Pong game-even if you don’t win, even if you weigh more than you should, even if you’re too embarrassed to say, “I am and athlete” out loud.

Cultus Lake Regatta:
Ask yourself, can I give more? The answer is usually Yes.
-Paul Tergat, legendary Kenyan distance runner

Nanaimo Regatta - with her squirt gun aimed at us:
Your mind quits long before your body does. If someone pulled out a .357 magnum and said, “Do it!” you’d find a way. Your mind might say no, but I guarantee you can go on.
Robert Link member of the first American team to summit the north face of 28,169 foot Kanchdnjunga in Nepal

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. - Eric Lindros

One thing about racing is that it hurts. You better accept that from the beginning or you're not going anywhere. -Bob Kennedy, US Olympian

We didn’t all come over in the same ship, but here we are in the same boat. - Unknown