Quotes About Strength

Los griegos creían que cualquier persona podía desbloquear un potencial sobrehumano activando los tres pilares del heroísmo: la habilidad, la fuerza y la compasión. Y tenían razón. Se puede.

Ultrarunning seemed to be an alternative universe where none of planet Earth's rules applied: women were stronger than men; old men were stronger than youngsters; Stone Age guys in sandals were stronger than everybody. And the mileage! The sheer stress on their legs was off the charts.

A hero's one crack at immortality was to be remembered as a champion, and champions don't die dumb. It all hinged on the ability to unleash the tremendous resources of strength, endurance, and agility that many people don't realize they already have.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks.

That's what I'm saying,' Scott insisted. 'I've been there, man. I've been there a lot. It takes more guts than going fast.

I know as a shoe company, it's not the greatest thing to have a sponsored team not use your product, but people went thousands of years without shoes. I think you try to do all these corrective things with shoes and you overcompensate. You fix things that don't need fixing. If you strengthen the foot by going barefoot, I think you reduce the risk of Achilles and knee and plantar fascia problems.

We're hardwired by nature to find common social ground, to believe that whatever we're doing today is normal and not much different from the way people have always behaved. We assume human achievement is on an upward slope, that learning from the past has made us stronger and smarter than anyone of the past.

Jenni ha sido una mujer dura desde entonces que corre millas y millas incluso en esos días en que la nieve cubre todo Idaho. Quizá, de alguna manera, esté automedicándose contra problemas profundamente arraigados, pero quizá (parafraseando a Bill Clinton) no había nada de malo en Jenni que no pudiera ser arreglado por lo que Jenni tenía de bueno.

I'm supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull myself down. When I do, I surprise even myself when my elbows straighten with barely any effort.

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. You don't get time-outs, warm-ups, or bathroom breaks. You may have a headache or be wearing the wrong pants or find yourself—the way Norina did—in a skirt and low heels in a school hallway becoming slick with your own blood.

you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

that's okay; humans are terrific

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone. —KEN CHLOUBER, Colorado miner and creator of

The hands are swinging doors, built on the fortress of legs," the great Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man liked to tell his students. "Ip Man did not move a great deal," one

Hazte amigo del dolor, y nunca te encontrarás solo. KEN CHLOUBER, Minero de Colorado y creador de Leadville Trail 100

Christopher McDougall

Scott Jurek resumió el credo no oficial de los Jóvenes Pistoleros con una cita de William James que usaba para cerrar todos los emails que enviaba: «Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión». Conforme

Ultra god Scott Jurek summed up the Young Guns' unofficial creed with a quote from William James he stuck on the end of every e-mail he sent: "Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." As

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.

All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

Theodore, you have the mind but not the body," his father said. "And without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You have to make your body.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.

Look how they point their toes down, not up, like gymnasts doing the floor exercise. And their backs! They could carry water buckets on their heads without spilling a drop! How many years have I been telling my kids to straighten up and run from the gut like that?).

uno debe convertirse en una persona fuerte antes de convertirse en un corredor fuerte.