running renegade: brooks blog

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lines to live by

"every moring in africa, a gazelle wakes up. it knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. every morning, a lion wakes up. it knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. it doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running!"

UAWA! (the swahili word meaning, kill)

"we aren't going to dress like we are homeless, because if we dress like we are homeless, then we will eat like we are homeless; which is nothing"
-coach schmidt

"to give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
-pre

"i have met my hero, and he is me."
- george sheehan

"the gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters."
-patti sue pummer

"we want to be that team that when that bus rolls up, when that maroon pulls in, the other team says, 'shiiiiiiiiit, not them again!' that is who we will be."
-coach franks

"training is hard, no, it's damn hard."
-coach schmidt

"i hate ole miss."
-coach schmidt

"a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
-william shedd

"many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-thomas edison

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

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