Dan John Quotes

#1. There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

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#2. The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything ... at best.

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#3. If it is important do it everyday

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#4. Make yourself a slave to good habits

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#5. As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

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#6. I'm going to try not to be the problem anymore.

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#7. warned them of getting buttonholed in a job that stopped them from exploring all the directions that life presented

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#8. Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

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#9. Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

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#10. Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

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#11. It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

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#12. Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

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#13. If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

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#14. Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

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#15. Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

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#16. Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

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#17. I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don't keep going.

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#18. Embrace lousy days. I've learned to remind myself easy days are part of the deal, and a great day is just around the corner.

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#19. Surgery is nature's way of telling us to slow down.

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#20. Constantly strive for mastery and grace.

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#21. If it's important do it everyday.

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#22. If it is important, do it every day. If it's not important, don't do it at all.

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#23. The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL

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#24. I said it was simple. Not easy.

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#25. The problem with values is that everybody has them, but nobody has the same order.

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#26. The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

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#27. There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.

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#28. There are "bus bench" workouts and "park bench" workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

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#29. I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

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#30. When things go wrong, simplify.

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#31. I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

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#32. The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

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#33. Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.

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#34. Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

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