Randy Pitchford Quotes

I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would.

I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

Know that the power comes from within: when you are tired, or you want to give up, dig deep. Dig deep for whatever reason - in boxing, in sport, in life.

There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

I'm just grateful that I didn't give up on myself and I just kept plugging at it.

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.