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Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.”

Ifs Long Matter Seems Suffering Sports Ability Race Beats Athlete Caring Teeth Cycles Endurance Discovering Complaints Embarrassment Cycling Not Caring Outlasting

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering”

Thinking Wells Able Suffering Hours Five Four Keys Mountain Endure Riding Cycling Push Yourself Pinnacle

Author:Greg LeMond

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

“Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.”

Ifs Looks Pain Remember Suffering Race Watches Endure Cycling

Author:Miguel Indurain

“I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.”

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Author:Miguel Indurain

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