“My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.” – Tiger Woods (Location 101)
“I never go into a competition expecting to lose. I go into it expecting to win – and win I do.” (Location 104)
When your desire to win turns into an expectation, your vibration is so strong you go into a calm, relaxed-ready state. (Location 107)
The bottom line is that you have no right to expect success if you do nothing to bring it about. You need to practice. A LOT. You imagine what you want, you see yourself excited about achieving what you want, then you make a vow to do WHATEVER it takes to make it happen. This is true in sports, in fitness, in business and in everything else. (Location 110)
You set your mind on a target, you get a mental picture of it, then you MOVE. (Location 112)
Whenever someone says he has goals but is not seeing them realized, look at whether he is willing to do whatever it takes to win. (Location 115)
As I tell my students, “Fear, frustration and impatience are not part of the success process.” (Location 118)
Do what champions do: When success eludes them, they focus more—not less. They recommit. They get tough. (Location 119)
But the champions, the masters, the really great ones, can get whacked 1,000 times and they still won’t quit. They’ll keep on until they claim their prize. (Location 126)
they view their mistakes as corrective feedback leading them to their goal. (Location 128)
The more you fail, the more you fall down, the closer you are to success. (Location 129)
If there is anything to fear, it is giving up when you are inches from success, but don’t know it. (Location 130)
Train to win. Pour your mind into practice time. (Location 131)
Go to bed thinking about what you want to accomplish and wake up with your vision playing inside your head. (Location 131)
Cultivate a spirit of relaxed readiness that tells the world you don’t just want to win – you expect to win – and win you will. (Location 132)
“Talent is useless without training, thank God.” – Mark Twain (Location 133)
whether or not we choose to develop our talents is not genetic. It’s environmental. (Location 137)
Give a person a success environment and you can work miracles. (Location 139)
When I mention ‘environment’ I am not just speaking of the space outside of you. I am also talking about what goes into your mind. (Location 141)
if you set up a success environment in your own mind, you can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. (Location 142)
Go to youtube.com and type in the following to see what I mean: “No Arms, No Legs, All Heart – Dustin Carter Documentary Teaser.” (Location 145)
“No Arms, No Legs, All Heart – Dustin Carter Documentary Teaser.” (Location 146)
there are genetic advantages, but without the willingness to practice, practice, practice, they usually don’t amount to much. (Location 147)
Without a great coach as well as his own willingness to push himself to the brink, he would have easily lost to those who don’t have flipper-like feet. (Location 154)
Those who make it are the ones who are hungry, ready and willing to compensate for lack of talent with something called “relentless repetition.” (Location 156)
Remaining at the top of your game also requires practice because the easiest thing to forget is what got you where you are. (Location 158)
For an athlete, practicing a specific technique a hundred times a day, or even a thousand times a day, may lead him to the top. But it would be a major mistake to think that once he’s at the top he doesn’t need to practice his skills anymore. (Location 159)
resting on your laurels leads to rusting on your skills. (Location 161)
“See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.” – Robert Collier (Location 164)
Rodgers says he learned how to visualize from a coach, when he was in 6th grade. He also says most of the big plays he made in Green Bay’s upset victory over Atlanta, were pictured in his imagination first. (Location 171)
It’s amazing to me that this story is headline news in today’s world. (Location 172)
After all, how many great athletes don’t visualize in one form or another? (Location 174)
No matter how you visualize though, the key thing to remember is that it won’t work unless your practice creates what Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho-Cybernetics, calls “that winning feeling.” (Location 175)
Visualization without a change of emotion isn’t the proper use of your creative imagination. (Location 178)
a more powerful approach to mind training is to change your feelings before you visualize. (Location 179)
This can be accomplished through deep breathing, stillness or through movements that integrate the breath. (Location 179)
E-motion stands for energy with movement. (Location 180)
Shadow boxing is a term used to describe a practice used by top boxers, martial artists, wrestlers, salespeople, speakers, golfers as well as surgeons. (Location 181)
You go through the motions as you picture it and you make sure you FEEL it. (Location 183)
Setting up a success environment isn’t difficult. All you need is a chair to sit still on or a small place to “shadow box” whatever you want to accomplish. Then (Location 191)
It’s not where you start that’s important – it’s where you finish. (Location 194)
if you’re willing to suspend the idea of talent and genetics being everything, and you’re willing to concentrate on being the best you can be, you’ll be amazed at how far and how fast you’ll travel. (Location 195)
“Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” – Martina Navratilova (Location 199)
The very best coaches never emphasized winning as the only thing. At the same time, they were sure disappointed when I lost, and they let me know, with words, gestures and facial expressions, that they expected more from me in the future. (Location 201)
Great coaches don’t tell you what it takes to get to the top. They demonstrate it. They teach you how to handle failure. It’s called keeping your head up and getting back to work as soon as possible, sometimes immediately after a contest. (Location 204)
Great coaches also teach you how to handle victory, which means no resting on one’s laurels. (Location 206)
In almost every case, whenever I was called “champ” before a competition began, I lost. (Location 209)
In baseball, withholding praise until the end of a game is commonplace, and a good practice others could learn. (Location 209)
Far too many business deals are lost because the person getting the deal “pops off” and tells others before the check is in his hands and the papers are signed. (Location 210)
The coach shook my hand, looked me in the eyes and said, “Go out there and have fun.” I did anything but have fun in that match. (Location 212)
In my early 20’s, when a coach told me to go out there and have fun, my mind drew a blank. I didn’t have the foggiest idea what he was talking about. What is Fun? (Location 214)
I’d say that fun is going out and giving it everything you’ve got to win the game. Fun is executing the techniques you’ve practiced flawlessly. Fun is breaking records. Fun is giving more than you think you’ve got. Fun is playing with enthusiasm, it’s hustling on every play and being courageous in the midst of fear, worry or self-doubt. (Location 216)
he created a Pyramid of Success, with the building blocks of what it takes to succeed. And the two cornerstones on that Pyramid were industriousness (hard work) and enthusiasm. Wooden said he never saw anyone succeed in anything who didn’t understand and employ those two principles. (Location 225)
Gable set the tone by doing far more than telling us to win. He demonstrated how to train in each and every practice. He was on the mat with us, sweating through everything we did. (Location 229)
If you ever have the privilege to be coached by someone who demonstrates success, you’ll do… (Location 230)
Note: This also suggests that if you want to lead peoplse then you should get on the mat with them and show them how to train and practice we by doing so yourself with them.
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick… (Location 232)
In Chinese kung fu, if you’ll do 1,000 repetitions per day of a single movement or… (Location 233)
the average person won’t commit to 100 reps a day of anything,… (Location 234)
you’re the person who’ll do 1,000 reps per day, you’ll be so smooth and quick that even if someone knows what you’re going to do,… (Location 235)
His coach took him aside and told him the secret to winning. “Practice everyday –… (Location 239)
Mitch knew the secret of his success wasn’t positive thinking, it was… (Location 242)
Last year I met a lady in Manhattan who is a 7th generation praying mantis practitioner. Her father began teaching her at age seven, and for three years she was taught only one move. She… (Location 242)
When working with my son, I have him execute the same throw over and over each day. I didn’t teach him this throw exclusively for three years, but for far longer than anyone else I know. And when it came time for him to… (Location 246)
As Karl Gotch once told me, “If you don’t want to teach them anything,… (Location 249)
Pete Lillo told me the story of how he was able to throw a no-hitter: “My dad had me throw 50 pitches a night through a tire hanging from a tree in our back yard. And I didn’t get my evening meal until all 50 pitches went through the tire. By the time I… (Location 250)
Putting in an hour a day may seem impossible to you, especially over 27+ years. That’s when a gentle reminder about concentrating on the number of repetitions per day… (Location 255)
one thing is for sure, the more reps you get, the… (Location 257)
“Telling others your goals and plans often results in applause, followed by your unwillingness to follow through. You’re better off zipping your lips until… (Location 259)
If you talk about your goals before they happen, they’re less… (Location 263)
when you talk about your intentions, oftentimes you receive applause from others, and this applause replaces your willingness to do whatever it takes to make your goal become a reality. And if you don’t receive applause, the… (Location 267)
keep in mind that I did NOT say you hide your goals from your master,… (Location 270)
If you have ever had confidence problems or fear issues, and most people have, when you announce your goal to the “wrong people” – a good many of them may… (Location 271)
when you’re just starting to build confidence, you don’t want to get unsolicited as well as unhelpful feedback from those who can’t truly help you reach your destination. Let… (Location 274)
In the movie, Grand Canyon, Steve Martin played a movie director. A man asked, “How’s the new movie coming along?” His reply – paraphrased: “I don’t like to talk about it. I have a belief that… (Location 276)
After they paid, if I kept my yap shut about it, more clients continued to flow to me. (Location 286)
Key metaphor to remember: When birds come to bathe in your bird-bath or eat from your feeder, if you talk too much they’ll fly away. But if you observe, remain silent and let the energy build, even more birds will come. (Location 288)
When you’ve reached a level of mastery in setting and achieving goals, you can announce your intentions or goals to others, or you can still choose to refrain from doing so. (Location 289)
“The power of one is above all things. The power to believe in yourself. Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete. The body is simply the means it uses.” – Bryce Courtenay (Location 293)
to become a national champion, all you need is one takedown that no one in the country can stop.” (Location 298)
There is no sport, no martial art or endeavor in which the “one move” principle doesn’t hold true. Yes, you can and will have other tools and techniques along the way. But make no mistake about it, when push comes to shove and your bread needs some butter, you better have ONE perfect “go to” move. (Location 304)
Rivera, for the most part, has only one pitch: a cutter. Yet, for most of his career, it’s rare that anyone can hit it. (Location 307)
many people make the mistake of trying to be a master of many things, all at the same time. Sorry,… (Location 308)
Mastery comes from working on one move, even when you’re bad at it. You work through the errors and missteps until you get competent. Then you work it some more until you’re good. Then you train it some more until you’re very good. And this continues,… (Location 309)
The average person is too concerned about boredom to… (Location 312)
Winners don’t get bored practicing the “same old thing.” To them, it’s the same skill done differently, done… (Location 313)
In the sport of golf, the pro never thinks he doesn’t need to work on… (Location 314)
More than any other marketing skill, email is my bread-n-butter move. There are many other marketing methods used on the Internet, but if they don’t enhance… (Location 318)
Learning the next move in anything is not a bad idea. But keep in mind that you always want to be in the process of perfecting your one throw, your one pitch, your one swing and your one marketing skill… (Location 319)
“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.… (Location 321)
Over 100 years ago in China, a young man wanted to learn gong fu. So he went to visit a Taoist master who was well-known for training many great martial artists. Upon meeting, the master asked the young man what style of gong fu he’d like to learn. Being unsophisticated about martial matters and the names of different styles, the young man replied: “I want to learn the most powerful style of gong fu.” The master nodded and began training the young man in an open meadow where a cold spring lay underground. The master instructed him in proper breathing and posture. He told him to pull the earth’s magnetic energy through his body and direct it through his palms. Then he taught him how to use his imagination and his intention when he delivered a palm strike with the energy he collected. And that was it. One technique. More is Better? Meanwhile the master worked with many other students, teaching them various styles of gong fu, all of which contained many different punches, kicks and strikes. As the others learned so much, the master’s newest student did his best to ignore them. He threw himself into his practice, training in earnest, morning, afternoon and night. Everyday, without fail, the new student stood in the same place, breathed deeply and called forth his internal powers with each palm strike. He never struck anything except for thin air, but in his imagination he saw himself doing far more. The Afternoon Break During the day the master would give the young man a break to teach him calligraphy, music and other arts. Then it was back to work in the open field. After one year of training the master noted that the ground in front of the student was beginning to get moist with water from the underground spring. After another year he noticed a puddle beginning to form. A year later, the puddle began turning into a lake. And each year afterward it rose even higher. The young man had no clue what was happening to the earth before him. All he did was train. But the Taoist master understood and was very pleased. Time to Go Home 10 years went by. The young man had trained in the same spot and the water from the spring was now deep enough for boats to fish in. At this point the Taoist master approached his ace student and with no warning whatsoever said: “Okay, training finished. You can go home now.” Understandably confused and upset, the young man stood up to… (Location 322)
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as… (Location 353)
Suffering is a state of mind that you go through on your way… (Location 356)
So I believe what Ali meant was that when he wasn’t focused on his goal, the training was hard. It was brutal. But as soon as he put his mind on the goal, he could handle it. He could bear it. He stopped suffering.… (Location 360)
When I shifted my mental focus I imagined getting my hand raised. I pictured being written up in the newspapers and interviewed on television. Within seconds of changing the pictures I… (Location 365)
Here’s a suggestion: Before and during your next workout, mentally pretend you are already at the finish line. See yourself celebrating being in possession of what you desire. During practice, when you’re challenged to see how badly you want your goal, you may have a tendency to forget about the finish line. Yet the trick to creating is keeping… (Location 369)
the achievements champions prize more than anything, are the battles that test them with… (Location 373)
Are you suffering in any way? If so, refocus on your goal and watch the pain dissipate. (Location 374)
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl S. Buck (Location 376)
One of the reasons we love sports and martial arts so much is because they’re two of the last models our society has left in which excellence is encouraged and rewarded. (Location 377)
We also love to find out HOW the champion became who he or she is. How did he train? What did he learn along the way that helped him? What masters did he learn from? (Location 381)
Instead of “fun” being the gold-standard in youth sports, how about teaching the importance of practicing to become excellent? How about teaching them how to use their creative imagination, to visualize, to set goals, to study and practice every aspect of a martial art or sport? (Location 393)
I stuck with wrestling because I loved it, was intrigued by it and never stopped learning how I could get better. (Location 414)
Make a bigger trophy and a separate award for the boys and girls who do better than the rest. If it’s good enough for the Big Leagues, then it’s good enough for our youth. (Location 416)
Make sports and martial arts fun – but emphasize that in the real world, becoming excellent at something is a whole lot more fun than being lousy. (Location 417)
Build your child’s self-image with activities that challenge his or her athleticism. Teach the value of practice. (Location 418)
Tell a child that it’s only “for fun” and he’ll never learn the value of practice and what can be accomplished because of it. (Location 420)
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” – Dennis Waitley (Location 424)
when you go to bed and wake up, your mind is preparing a map to navigate through your day. (Location 427)
The average person is totally unconscious about what he thinks about during these important moments, as well as many other peak moments each day. The superior person is not. He knows what he wants and his thoughts reflect it. (Location 428)
You can go to bed with the words, I’m tired playing in your head. If you do, chances are excellent you’ll wake up eight or so hours later and you still won’t be refreshed. (Location 432)
Now, if you were to experiment with a different thought like, Tomorrow I will wake up feeling energized – I think you’ll be amazed at what happens. (Location 435)
Let’s say you have a tough meeting tomorrow and you need to talk to someone who is really arrogant. How are you going to picture this meeting? What are you going to say to get yourself ready? Moreover, what would happen if you started picturing yourself and the other person as smiling and getting along, able to easily communicate with each other? I’m willing to bet this mental picture will greatly influence the outcome. (Location 438)
If you see yourself at your best, you’ll be at your best more often. (Location 446)
Mentally review your best practices, your best moments, best meeting, best encounters and best experiences. Recall the days when everything worked like magic. If you’ll do this, you’ll start having a lot more “best” days, and you’ll do so with an uncanny frequency. (Location 446)
P.T. Barnum once said, “Imagination is the elixir of life.” (Location 448)
“The fall from the ladder of success is a lot quicker than the climb up.” – Pete Lillo (Location 453)
From a positive sense, pride connotes self-respect or dignity. You have a healthy attitude about who you are and what you’ve accomplished. This is the disposition needed to navigate toward and achieve your goals. (Location 455)
Healthy pride often appears in the form of gratitude for what you’ve accomplished. It’s usually accompanied by realizing that as humans we are prone to mistakes and failure. (Location 457)
One of the quickest ways of losing your step is to think only about how great you are. Instead of remembering and acknowledging those who helped you along the way, you think you are one hundred percent self-created. (Location 460)
Don’t think you are a better human being than others just because you have developed a skill to a higher degree than they have (Location 464)
Don’t believe you are smarter than the coaches and mentors you’ve had or the books and courses you’ve studied (Location 465)
It takes exceptional character to accept the praise, but redirect the energy toward self-improvement. (Location 470)
Granted, celebrating after a victory feels wonderful. It’s also important. But equally important is immediately setting another goal; one that keeps your mind focused on the reality that success is an ongoing journey, not a final resting place. (Location 475)
“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.” – Robert H. Schuller (Location 479)
Three of the keys that carried me out of the tough times were books, positive mental movies and an attitude of gratitude. (Location 485)
It taught me how my mistakes, setbacks and failures weren’t negatives. Instead they were corrective feedback helping me to achieve the goals I set for myself. (Location 488)
because we remember with the same part of our brain in which we visualize the future, when we recall previous victories our mind opens to receive more. (Location 491)
And the way out is finding anything for which you can be grateful. (Location 493)
Successful people leave footprints. They leave clues. They leave ways for us to move beyond our troubles and become the person we want to be. (Location 498)
Spend time each day counting your blessings. This alone can cause a miraculous turnaround. (Location 500)
Continue to read inspiring books of heroism and conquest. (Location 501)
Make a list of a dozen positive experiences from your past, no matter how long ago, no matter how insignificant they may seem to you right now. (Location 501)
when you recall and relive your positive past, you tell your subconscious mind to direct you toward more of the same. (Location 504)
When times are tough, remember that tough times never last. But tough people do. (Location 505)
“The greatest champions in sports are those who make themselves their greatest opponent.” – Jim Furey (Dad) (Location 506)
Competition is a good thing. A great thing. It brings out the best in a person. It shines a light on a person’s true weaknesses. (Location 507)
On one hand, the person who loses may consider himself a failure and begin to lose confidence. On the other, the person who wins may think he’s better than he is, that he no longer needs instruction or needs to keep learning. (Location 509)
Even when they win they stay connected to their vision of “constant improvement.” Eventually their constant improvements lead to mastery, (Location 515)
You train day after day, no matter what. Your first day of training, as well as your 1,000th and 10,000th, is all the same; they’re all part of the same circular chain known as the master’s ongoing journey. (Location 518)
Victory is not so much winning against others as it is winning the game with yourself. It’s not winning “over” yourself, but winning “with” yourself. Getting into harmony with your body, mind and soul. (Location 520)
I once knew a businessman who’d been successful for more than ten years. Then the demand for his product died off and he had to close up shop. He thought of himself as a failure. I talked to the man and said, “My goodness, you had 10 years of success. I wouldn’t call that a failure. Remember the successful days of the business and close the chapter you’re reading on failure. Figure out a way to tap into another current trend and you’ll be off to the races once again.” (Location 528)
you’ll never get better by reliving memories from the “bad old days.” Remember the best times and move forward with the idea of creating more of them. (Location 533)
There are great athletes who go undefeated until the big show. Then, if they lose the championship, they feel like failures. They’re not. They simply lost one game. They won almost all of their games. This is what they need to focus on in the present to improve their future. They need to keep replaying the games they won and discover why they won them. (Location 534)
No matter what you are doing, picture what you want and give it everything you have and the final score will take care of itself. (Location 539)
Make yourself your greatest competition and you’ll be leaving everyone else you used to compete against in the dust. It’s the way of the champion. (Location 540)
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Brian Tracy (Location 542)
In every sport or martial art I can think of, if all you have is competence, you may be in for a serious beating. You need confidence as well as competence. (Location 544)
If you are highly skilled but lack confidence, you’ll be passive when it’s time to be aggressive. Or you’ll be aggressive when you’d be better off being a bit passive. In short, you’ll use the wrong strategy at the worst possible time. You’ll make mental mistakes. (Location 546)
There would be many highly skilled champions in the making if they only had the confidence to stick with their training, day in and day out, until they mastered their sport; if they only knew how to inject instantaneous confidence into their mind and body when they needed it most. (Location 548)
Even when you’re competent, you still need to project confidence in what you are competent in. If you don’t, your high level of competence will not be taken seriously by anyone, yourself included. (Location 555)
But when you’re confident in learning the things you’re not competent in, you will surprise yourself and others at how much faster you learn. The person who KNOWS he can learn whatever he sets his mind on has an edge over the person who doubts himself. (Location 556)
take the time to remember a segment of your life in which you were confident. (Location 563)
At one time you were neither competent nor confident in the skill you now perform with ease. But now you are confident in this area. This means you HAVE confidence. You just don’t know how to transfer the energy in that mental movie to other areas of interest. (Location 565)
You’re in good hands when you find the movie in your mind labeled “CONFIDENCE.” Once you find it, begin breathing, picturing and moving the way you would if you were doing the thing you are confident in. Then keep breathing and moving the same way you would move if you were already confident. (Location 566)
Everything I can now do, I was unable to do at one time. Yet, through the process of making mistakes and using the feedback from those mistakes, I was able to learn everything I set my mind on learning. On the other hand, in all the areas where I gave up on myself, guess what happened? I never got better in those areas. (Location 575)
All musicians who learn to play an instrument start out playing poorly. But if they continue to practice and persevere, they will find a way to cut through the frustration and play beautiful music. Whether they play as well in concert as they do in practice will be a matter of confidence. (Location 594)
“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.” – George Steinbrenner (Location 599)
The first key to great cardio is doing the opposite of what you’ve been told. If you’re doing an exercise that does NOT force you to lose your breath – typically considered anaerobic exercise – then you’re not forcing your heart and lungs to make a major adaptation, and major adaptation is what creates great cardiovascular fitness. (Location 602)
When you do a hill sprint, you’re using FAR more oxygen, far faster, than if you go for a jog around the block. This is why hill sprints are one of the “lost secrets” of burning off excess flab in record time. (Location 605)
The second key to being in great condition is doing bodyweight exercises (Location 610)
The third key to being in great condition is getting off all the processed foods that weigh you down and steal your body’s energy. (Location 613)
Accelerators of the aging process are substances like sugar and high fructose corn syrup. If you’re junking out on cola drinks, pastries and candy, you’re having temporary fun at the expense of longterm health. (Location 617)
As a former collegiate wrestler, I had to regularly drop a load of water weight within 24 hours of competition. I found the cleaner my diet, the easier it was to break a sweat and reduce my weight. On the other hand, if I was eating sugar or drinking it in the form of soft drinks, cutting water weight was a nightmare. (Location 618)
Key number four: Pay heed to the words of Chuang Tzu, who said, “Ordinary people breathe from their throats; extraordinary people breathe from their feet.” (Location 621)
To practice deep breathing exercises or chi kung, sit on the edge of a chair with your back straight. Or stand with your feet shoulderwidth apart. Let your shoulders relax. Tuck in your pelvis to remove the curve from your lower back. Let your whole body relax. Inhale through your nose and imagine your lungs extend all the way to the space beneath your feet. Gently pull the inhale all the way to your feet, then exhale slowly through your nose. Repeat for three breaths and note how much better you feel. Then repeat for several minutes and observe an even bigger change in your mental state. See how quickly you go from stressed out to calm and centered. (Location 624)
“We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.” – Herb Brooks (Location 629)
“the legs feed the wolf” meant that great hockey players, like wolves on the hunt, need speed and endurance. Not either-or. Both. (Location 641)
Karl Gotch referred to conditioning as “your best hold.” Gable was fanatical about conditioning as well. But neither had a line as good as Brooks’ “the legs feed the wolf.” (Location 642)
When you sprint, you not only get faster and generate more endurance, you also turn back the clock and cause your body to get younger. Sprinting causes your body to naturally secrete more HGH and testosterone, whereas long-distance cardio causes the opposite reaction. (Location 644)
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (Location 654)
there’s a group of Tendai Buddhist monks in Japan who do the seemingly impossible. They’re called Marathon monks and they live on Mt. Hiei near Kyoto. (Location 657)
All members of this sect must do one marathon per day for 100-straight days, through the rugged mountains, as part of their training. (Location 659)
Out of the entire lot of monks, a small and elite class are given the task of completing 1,000 marathons in seven years. And whoever finishes this feat is considered a Living Buddha or saint. (Location 660)
Since 1885, only 46 monks have survived the 1,000-marathonsin-seven-years-challenge. (Location 661)
the 1,000 marathons challenge follows the Bushido code. This means you complete the ordeal or agree to take your own life. (Location 669)
I don’t believe you can reach the highest levels of mental and spiritual power without being physically active. (Location 680)
only learn through transmission from (Location 1406)
