If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change. – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Trust your instincts. Don’t think, just do. – Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick
A true believer, that one. There are few things so dangerous in a man as lack of doubt – from God of War
Today Jack (Nicklaus) plays such sensational golf with such apparent ease that many people who watch him probably gain the impression that his skills are heaven-sent rather than self-developed. That isn’t true. No one ever worked harder at golf than Nicklaus during his teens and early twenties. At the age of ten, in his first year of golf, Jack must have averaged three hundred practice shots and at least eighteen holes of play daily. In later years, he would often hit double that number of practice shots and play thirty-six — even fifty-four — holes of golf a day during the summer. I have seen him practice for hours in rain, violent winds, snow, intense heat — nothing would keep him away from golf. Even a slight case of polio failed to prevent him from turning up for a golf match.
Excellence is the capacity to take pain – Four Seasons founder
I think I could potentially train harder, because you wanna be as close as possible to being injured, without actually being injured. And I haven’t pushed it as far as being injured yet, so, maybe I haven’t pushed it enough. – Magnus Mitdbo
The reality is that everyone is a basket case on the inside. Some people just hide it better. Find me a normal person and I’ll show you someone you don’t know that well. – Scott Adams
One lesson I’ve learned is that if the job I do were easy, I wouldn’t derive so much satisfaction from it. The thrill of winning is in direct proportion to the effort I put in before. I also know, from long experience, that if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best. That is how you win championships, that is what separates the great player from the merely good player. The difference lies in how well you’ve prepared. – Nadal
From the seed-bed
The Dharma raises flowers.
Yet there is no seed
Nor are there flowers.
Ser Otto Hightower : And yet I’ve never seen that side of you, my daughter. I even doubted its existence.
Queen Alicent Hightower : It was an ugly thing. I regret it.
Ser Otto Hightower : We play an ugly game. And now, for the first time, I see that you have the determination to win it.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. – Rumi
