Scott Tinley quotes

“Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.”
-- Scott Tinley

#Attitude Quotes #Light Quotes #People Quotes

“To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.”
-- Scott Tinley

Source : Scott Tinley (2015). “Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World”, p.232, Hatherleigh Press

#Able Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.”
-- Scott Tinley

Source : Scott Tinley (1994). “Scott Tinley's Winning Guide to Sports Endurance: How to Maximize Speed, Strength & Stamina”

#Athlete Quotes #Endurance Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.”
-- Scott Tinley

Source : Scott Tinley (1995). “Finding the wheel's hub: tales and thoughts from the endurance athletic lifestyle”, Trimarket

#Race Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”

“In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.”

“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”

“Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”