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Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

As my old french teacher used to say

"Quelquefois un vainqueur est juste un rêveur qui n'a jamais renoncé."
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Lee O · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 298 Location: Canvey Island

QUE!!!

Lee
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My mind says I am still 19 and in My Prime......Body Suggests Otherwise!!!!!!

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

Don't agree - a dreamer never wins....

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

every loser wins.....

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

you know what they say...

"Mike Mason est un bouton"

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

The reason why you should always 'Farmers blow' when you are running:

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ~Attributed to George Carlin

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

That which does not kill me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzche

Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzche
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

Whatever destroys or kills me makes me switch off the Playstation. - Jack Large.
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"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

- Holly, ships computer, Red Dwarf

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

when your lungs are gasping and legs feel like lead and you have just vomited from the intensity of the workout.....remember

'you can't polish a turd....'

this brings you back to the awful true self-realisation

I will be back to my series of motivational death quotes later....

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

“Every man dies - Not every man really lives.”

William Ross Wallace

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

'you great big nancy, sissy, girly, Manchester United supporting poof...'

Gene Hunt - 'Life on Mars'

say loudly to self as feel like giving up,,,,magic

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

Damn you Karl. I am now really looking forward to you being overtaken by the Rhino, the guy in the divers suit and the Rugby player wearing a nice little tutu.......

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

Hundreds of Auto Trader readers took part in the poll, which saw the line “You so much belt out of line and I’ll have your scrotum on a barbed wire plate” coming last.

The series came to an end this week, in a thrilling but ambiguous climax.

Life on Mars has become a cult hit, with viewers tuning in for Hunt’s – played by Phil Glenister – politically incorrect policing and the array of retro motors.

The show – which won an International Emmy – is set for a remake stateside, following the likes of The Office and Top Gear.

Full list:

1. Don’t move, you’re surrounded by armed bastards – 28 per cent
2. He’s got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course – 22 per cent
3. You’re as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot – 15 per cent
4. Anything happens to this motor, I’ll come round your houses and stamp on all your toys. Got it? Good kids – 9 per cent
5. There will never be a woman Prime Minister as long as there’s a hole in my arse – 8 per cent
6. (Sam to Gene) She’s as good a detective as anyone here (Gene to Cartwright) Fair enough, see if you can detect me a nice pack of garibaldis - 7 per cent
7. Your son Mrs. Bathurst was a cold-hearted killer and if there’s a hell, he’s going there to be poked up the arse with sharp fiery sticks forever and ever, Amen – 5 per cent
8. Murderers do not play tennis – 3 per cent
9. (Sam to Gene) How does your wife put up with you? (Gene) It must be my legendary prowess as a lover – 2 per cent
10. You so much as belch out of line and I’ll have your scrotum on a barbed wire plate – 1 per cent
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

MM.

Many thanks for the Gene gems. These are much better than your usual fatality-inducing quotes masquerading as 'Motivational'; keep it up.

Obviously I couldn't finish without a Reagan quote:

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

Agent Smith:

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

From the Inside Flap

The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life
What 35 Years of Running Has Taught Me about Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart

On Finding Your Path
"I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. You might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your way."

On Creativity
"Sometimes my main reason for running is simply to see where my brain will go while my body is meandering though the local trails or roadways. It can never be predicted, and it's always a surprise."

On The Need For Traditions
"In a world that perpetually moves faster, never slower, we need all the anchoring points we can find. Chaos erupts spontaneously in our spinning lives. It's the center of the wheel that we need to focus on more often."

On Bouncing Back
"Losing isn't contagious. It's not a fatal condition, and it's not forever. It's more like a cold that makes you miserable for a week but then goes away, and you're fine."

On Goals
"When in the mountains enjoy the mountain scenery. Nobody achieves his goal without having some fun along the way. Without fun, we'd give up long before the finish line. If there's any way to make the road easier and enjoyable, I'm all for it."

On Starting Fresh
"Life goes on, day after day, but it also has the ability to reinvent itself, to start over. This is what the seasons show us. We all have marveled at the apple tree's ability to rest through a dark, cold winter, then to grow new leaves in the spring, to blossom again, to bear fruit. We don't often think of our own lives this way, but I think we should."

About the Author
A lifelong runner and running advocate, Amby Burfoot has been executive editor of Runner's World magazine since 1985. In 1968, he won the Boston Marathon, the first American to do so in 11 years. He is the author of The Principles of Running and Runner's World Complete Book of Running.
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body”

Publilius Syrus quotes (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)

I can assure Mr Syrus that he is indeed an arse..........!

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

Remembering my old maths teacher (Hello, Mr Jones)
We can take the previous post and do a little transposing of figures and end up with the following forumla

Mike Mason = a pain in the + (arse) - (personality+chrisma) x 2

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

Plus, where is Gary's map ?

(think this is code for some elaborate plan to sneak in fluffly pillows and duvets onto the streets of Oxford for the Seni-Extreme.)

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
- Mark Twain
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Pat M · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 215 Location: Canvey Island

Obviously Mark Twain never 'ad a sprain!
Or bought unwanted ankle supports, and threw his money down the drain.
He certainly wasn't a runner, oh no for that he was too sane.
I admit he penned young Huckleberry, I say with jealous distain.
But who calls themselves after a measure? Only a smart arse named Mark Twain.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

Pat, very good but it's a poem not a quote...... compress

Do we need to start a Motivational Poems section?
rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

The Greatest Story Ever Told"

Once upon a time, a boy asked a girl to marry him.
She said, "No."
And he lived happily ever after, and drank beer, and hiked and ran alot,
and peed off the back porch whenever he wanted.

The END
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Pammie · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 280

Something i heard t'other day (can't remember where)
"If i'm going to die i may as well get a pb out of it"
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I'll put something interesting here when i've thought of something, in the meantime heres some music.

mikemoreton · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Hockley, GORC.

MM2,

Are you still single then by any chance?

Steffan · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 538 Location: Basildon

NEVER GIVE UP NEVER GIVE IN. blackeye

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

'I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying...'
Michael Jordan[/quote]
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edgar Watson Howe
(1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

"I didn't go out too fast, I just died too soon." - Unknown
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Ian J · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 137 Location: Rayleigh

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

Ian, a few more for you and us all.............

'Start slow, then taper off. 'Walt Stack

"It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop." Lao-Tzu

I will be back to death quotes shortly to cheer Karl up...
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Rayleigh

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA)

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 895 Location: Hockley

Another DogDeath
> by John Updike
> For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back
> pinched down to the spine and arched to ease the pain,
> her kidneys dry, her muzzle white. At last
> I took a shovel into the woods and dug her grave
> in preparation for the certain. She came along,
> which I had not expected. Still, the children gone,
> such expeditions were rare, and the dog,
> spayed early, knew no nonhuman word for love.
> She made her stiff legs trot and let her bent tail wag.
> We found a spot we liked, where the pines met the
> field.
> The sun warmed her fur as she dozed and I dug;
> I carved her a safe place while she protected me.
> I measured her length with the shovel long handle;
> she perked in amusement, and sniffed the heaped-up
> earth.
> Back down at the house, she seemed friskier,
> but gagged, eating. We called the vet a few days later.
>