"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

Experience is a tough teacher, it gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.

'pain is temporary. it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take it's place. if i quit however, it will last forever'

-lance armstrong

+1

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
(Oscar Wilde)

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

Patiently suffer; suffer patiently.

-marine sniper school saying

"It's never too late to be what you might have been" - George Bernard Shaw

Im a football (soccer) coach and I never get tired of that Al Pacino speech. Its BRUTAL !!! Every time I listen to it it makes me want go out there and tackle somebody

"Pain is weakness leaving the body". My basic training Sergeant.

lol hes the one who came up with that?

"You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever"

Pain is weakness leaving the body

If you punch a tree over and over again every day for a few years your hand wont be broken (unless you punched TOO hard). Instead, it will be toughed, and calloused, and you will be able to take far more pain.

When a problem in life is emotionally painful you are emotionally scarred. But if you learn from it, the emotional scars will scab over and you will be a strong, more experienced and mature person because of it. When this occurs, as long as your emotional pain does not destroy you, it will eventually make you strong if you allow it too.

If you run 15 miles daily for a year, your body will be in a lot of pain, especially the first month or two. By the end of the year, your muscles would be so broken down and rebuilt you would be very strong, provided you had enough nutrients, water, and rest during the year. If you tried to do the same with 50 miles a day, you would end up dead.

Pain truly is weakness leaving the body, provided that the pain inflicted is small enough that you can handle it and grow from it, emotionally or physically.

the more you learn the more you earn!

"You have to loose one before you win one" - ^^^^^^^^^^

Think of fish as paying customers. If you loose to them think of it as concessions. The most successful merchants have the best concessions to keep their paying customers coming back. If you never lost to fish you couldn't give them concessions therefore they wouldn't come back. The fact that they come back is what makes poker BEATABLE.