Quotations - Some of our favorites

"It's not about doing the things you love, it's about doing things with the one you love"

"I love me some Hootie, but I was the Blowfish tonight (Serby)

If you are casual about your dreams you will end up a casualty (Les Brown)

If you are going through hell don't stop. (Les Brown)

If something is going wrong, don't go with it! (Les Brown)

You don’t run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear?  A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him.  Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys.  That's the way to be great, running against yourself.  Against all the rotten mess in the world. (Bill Persons)

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. (George Sheehan)

Jogging is very beneficial.  It's good for your legs and your feet.  It's also very good for the ground.  It makes it feel needed.  (Charles Schulz, Peanuts)

Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day.  It asks you, " Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" (Peter Maher)

Don't fall before you're pushed (English Proverb) - Dedicated to #10 on the Central Florida Soccer League's Aresenal. Thanks for the red-card...glad to see you got yours...ahh sweet justice.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

I now only have good days and great days - (Lance Armstrong)

Son, beer is for daddies and people with fake IDs (Homer Simpson) (Yet another beauty from Jimmy) Upon seeing the feeder crickets at the Pet Store "Oh cool, pet cockroaches!"

"If God brings me to it, he will bring me through it." (Amy)

"The hunt has become much harder but the reward becomes greater" (Lilroy0)

Our very own Jimmy, upon seeing a meat thermometer in a roast: "A bologna clock?? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" (THIS IS MY NEW ALL TIME FAVORITE....YES YOU HAD TO BE THERE, BUT CMON YOU GOTTA ADMIT IT IS FUNNY)

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. (James L. Christensen)

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. (Lou Holtz)

A quote by the great American cyclist Lance Armstrong changed my attitude after a long day. Click here to read a motivational story.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Get up one time more than you're knocked down. (Peter Drucker)

How high could you go if you knew you wouldn't fall? (Anonymous)

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. (Krishnamurti)

One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future. (Anonymous)

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. (Mildred White Struven)

If everything's under control, you're going too slow. (Mario Andretti)

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did. (Shel Silverstein)

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. (Carl Weick)

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are. (Pope Gregory I)

Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets. (Clark Moustakas)

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. (Robert F. Bennett)

When nothing is going your way and you are about to have a mental breakdown, do not throw your cell phone and break it. Especially when it is your only connection to the one that makes you feel better. Especially not when the one that makes you feel better needs you too. (Scott-- speaking from experience. What a stoopid $*#^%!)

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

You only live once . but if you live it right, once is enough.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. (Albert Einstein)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

When I do right, no one ever remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like no one's watching, and Laugh like no one's listening.

confucious say: Chinese restaurant in danger of going out of business, when instead of GIVING fortune cookie, they SELL for 10 cents at exit door! (uhhh, thanks Betty)

And this too shall pass (Anon)

"Shit Balls!"- (created by Amy, used state wide)

I never said it will be easy, i only said it would be worth it. (Anon)

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves
Wondering if we had spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we might have been
(Dave Matthews)

I am no superman
I have no answers for you
I am no hero, oh that’s for sure
But I do know one thing for sure
Is where you are, is where I belong
I do know, where you go, is where I want to be
(Dave Matthews)

All things are difficult before they are easy. (Italian proverb)

Good things come to those who wait. (Anon, submitted by Amy)

I don't understand the numbers
But my faith is in the math
but the odds are all this pain will even out in the end
And we'll look back and laugh
This will all make perfect sense someday
There's got to be a reason for the rain.
(John Mayer)

No one has looked back sadly on a life full of experiences, but many look back wishing they had had the courage to do more. (Anon)

Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. (Eliot Wigginton)

Listen to others, then formulate your own opinion (Amy--and she uses this theory daily)

12 inches to a yard have you soundin like a retard. (Betty's suggestion from either Salt or Pepper)

The true value of an individual is how he treats one who can do him absolutely no good. (From Betty)

"For the love of Pete!" (From Betty)

Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game (Voltaire 1694)