Quotes About Challenge

Wendelin Van Draanen

Summers there are awful! Winters there are awful! Why do you stay? You ought to run away! Hop a train! Stow away on a bus! What am I saying? You could just buy yourself a ticket. It would be interesting to talk to you if you did it the other way, though. We could compare scars and bruises. It might be fun.

I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, and your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. Your determination is all that's left. It forces your muscles to fire. Forces you to stay in the race. Forces you to survive the pain of this moment.

learned what sweating bullets means.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

We've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

The Kansas state motto, "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties.

Or Aron Nimzovich, author of perhaps the greatest book on chess theory ever written, who, upon being defeated in a game, threw the pieces to the floor and jumped on the table screaming, "Why must I lose to this idiot?

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.

Regardless what you do or what business you're in, time is more often than not your fiercest competitor.

The longest mile I ever ran was the mile I ran with Cedar Fever!

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

For one brief moment victory was within our grasp!" "And then the game started!

My grandfather has been very depressed lately. He just doesn't know what to do. He says it's late in the game, and he's afraid that life has him beaten." "Tell him to take out the goalie.

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

What in the world is the matter with you ?!" "I'm a new feminist!

Sidewalks always win Knees always lose!