Best Motivational Videos & Quotes

Original April 8, 2013:
These are some favorite videos and quotes that I have come across that provide motivation and also keep things in perspective. I will continue to update this list as I find other good ones. Suggestions are welcome.

Update May 22, 2013: I watched a lot of brave athletes tackle 90 degree heat at Ironman Texas last Saturday. There was a 17% DNF rate. For those people, the quote from Teddy Roosevelt has been added.

Best Videos

Move (Nike, 2002 Olympics)

The Pursuit of Better (Newton Running)

The Script - Hall of Fame (remake video)

Best Quotes

"Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.” - Greg Henderson

"My philosophy is you have to give it your 100 percent and you're a winner. That was my 100 percent. Why have any bad feelings about your 100 percent?" - Mike Pigg

"When you are going through hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill

"I would just think of my dad (a former pro cyclist who has Parkinson's). I knew that if my dad could be in my shoes for one day—if all he had to do was struggle on a bike for six hours, but be healthy and fully functional—he would be me on that day in a heartbeat." - Taylor Phinney, talking about why he didn't quit a tough race when he was dead last.

"It doesn't get any easier. You just get faster" - Greg LeMond

"The only easy day was yesterday" - motto of the SEALs

 "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."  - Theodore Roosevelt "Citizenship in a Republic" speech, Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body" - Chesty Puller, USMC (attributed)

"No one falls to the top of a mountain, son" - Chris McCormack's father
"Sweat is fat crying"