Best Triathlon Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Triathlon for Women: Everything you need to know to get started and succeed

“The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.”

Running Health Swimming Fitness Cycling Triathlon

Book:Triathlon: Winning at 70.3: How To Dominate The Middle Distance

Source: Triathlon: Winning at 70.3: How To Dominate The Middle Distance

“I was stunned. I pulled the phone away and looked quizzically at the hole-punched speaker. Aside from the blood obligation to be my sister's maid of honor, it had never occured to me that I would get asked to be in anyone's wedding. I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are the like the triathlon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall off their bikes or choke on ocean water. I figured if I valued my life, I'd stay away from weddings and they'd stay away from me.”

Marriage Weddings Triathlon

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays

“Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.”

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Author:Martha McSally

“I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.”

Stills Running Used Strong Machines Legs Used To Be Bike Triathlon

Author:Pat Bowlen

“Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.”

Ifs Knows Done Guy Asks Taught Serious Fit Limits Ears Muscles Physically Fit Triathlon

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.”

Done Race Couple Marathon Triathlon

Author:Stephen Mangan

“I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.”

Trying Years Firsts Bits Sports Decided Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.”

Years Fit Train Rounds Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself.”

Needs Hands Jobs Enjoy Lines Race Focus Enjoy Yourself Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“Triathlon has quite a short season. It only runs from May to September so there's a lot of time when you're not racing. So I try to set myself the target of doing a certain amount of training every week and things like that.”

Trying May Running Certain Week Amount Training Seasons Target Racing September Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?”

Hard Answers Hard Work Riding Bike January Christmas Eve Triathlon Riding Your Bike January 1st

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.”

Ifs Wells May Two Fun Goal Hours Work Out Fun Things Triathlon

Author:Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

“You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.”

Needs Long Emotional Products Revolution Skills Creating Hundred Resources Distance Ships Multiple Yards Long Distance Stamina Churning Triathlon

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Ironman distance triathlons are a true test of oneself as a whole. Each race is a test of physical, mental and spiritual toughness that I haven't found in any other type of racing. At the end of the day, challenging myself on all levels is what it's about for me.”

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Author:Timothy O'Donnell

“The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.”

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Author:Timothy O'Donnell

“I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.”

Want I Can Right Thing Controlled Formulas Formula One Triathlon

Author:Jenson Button

“The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews.”

Speak Changed Tough Harder Presses Radio Locals Interviews Dry Transition Triathlon

Author:Greg James

“When I was a runner and competing in triathlons I was having pains in my hip and just treating it as an injury. I would ice it and take anti-inflammatories, but it just wouldn't go away. I finally went into my doctor and we did x-rays and had an MRI and diagnosed it as osteoarthritis. At that point I stopped doing anything that was impactful to my hip joints.”

Pain Doctors Ice Hips Injury Going Away Rays Runners Competing Joints Mri Triathlon

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“I had to quit triathlons, I continued to be active and worked in advertising agency .”

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Author:Kristin Armstrong

“Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health.”

Running Marathon Good Health Triathlon

Author:Michelle Obama

“I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.”

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Author:Jenson Button

“It never gets easier; you just go faster.”

Source: The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance

“You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?”

“For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.”

Feels Pain Lasts Bits Enjoy Alive Chasing Lap Triathlon

Author:Jenson Button