Well, I am 1 week out from heading to the Rocking R on my first elk hunt. Walking through the kitchen yesterday, stepped around a pile of shoes my daughter left and caught my little toe on corner of the wall. Broken!!! 1 week out. So this got me to thinking about all the 1 liners I have heard over the years. Here are a couple to get the conversation started....
I was Team Roping and had a green heel horse get in the wrong lead and trip in the turn. He fell hard on my left leg while running at full speed, skidding to a stop on my left leg. It turned my foot backwards 180, fractured Tib, Fib. Surgery with plates, and Pins. I cut the cast off in an Anchorage hotel. And went anyway. Huge mistake. I crawled around. Crutches didn’t work. But I got my moose. I cut it up while it was being packed out. I was miserable on the plane and in the bush. Bad decision making in my youth.
"I been machine-gunned, hand-gunned, hijacked, left for dead Divebombed, napalmed, nuclear warheaded Dropped from a jet plane with no parachute Shot by a firing squad and raped by a business suit I'm dancing on a landmine, one leg left But I can still crawl and I'm not dead yet!
Training a new horse for packing out a bear. While putting bear on the horse cow kick my brother leg and broke the fibula. Still went hunting the next day.
Scoot, That one gets used a lot at the Hearne household, with a small iteration.
Suck it up buttercup.
Also one out of the movie "Replacements".
"Chicks dig scars, pain don't hurt and glory lives forever". Translated, there will be no pain when at full draw with a bull elk at 30 yards. Focus and execute.
I’m reminded of Jeremiah Johnson, when Bearclaw Lapp was speaking to Jeremiah; “You’ve come far, pilgrim.” “Feels like far...” “T’were it worth the trouble?” “Huh - what trouble?”
Those with little kids will understand. On a mountain hunt where I was sick, and the climbs were killing me, the only thing that kept going through my head was
"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming swimming swimming."
I grew up in a family business, If I spent thirty seconds too long in the office Dad would tell me, " get out in the shop and get busy, or I am going to start a shoe shop in your ass." Nothing like a fathers love and guidance.
From a "Celebration of Life" I went to yesterday for a dear family friend. " He died as he lived. Full-throttle, racing across the finish line, having given everything he had, out of gas, but laughing with a twinkle in his eye."
Maybe not motivational but my jr high football coach would ask “is it your right knee, left knee or your weeny”. He never had to ask me that though one time I ran into a brick wall full speed face first. He said, “ does it hurt when you laugh” I said I guess not, “ he said keep laughing” then told me the line someone said earlier “ it’ll feel better when it quits hurting”.
Is this your first day?, or Is that the Best you got?. I ask that of my three and a half Great Granddaughter when she throws a fit. I gotta take my victories where I can.
Not sure if you would call it motivational, but when shooting at targets and especially animals, I always remind myself with the phrase.....PASS, “Pick a Spot Stupid”.
This is the opposite of motivational. I hired this older man to help out with carpenter work. Every time something went right he would say Lucky dumbness. Always struck me how a man could live with that attitude all his life. A real Debbie Downer.
You can't steal second with your foot still on first! Or as said to all my children at one time or another, You get what you get, and you don't have a fit!
Upon arriving at the baseball field house in college at 6 am and my coach saying “ be thankful you can run as their are those less fortunate now put one foot in front of the other and run 2 miles”
A Occifer? Well, i can see that then. I helped coach the 25th team outta my camp on Oahu as the long war started. Those two brothers took 2nd. They did not leave anything on the field.
Knowing you once did...when those abilities cease...will bring you peace...while sitting in a rocker on your porch...watching the sun go down...4finger
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. rk
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. Jimmy Buffett What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Nietzsche Better living through chemistry DuPont Chemical commercials
From "Try" by Pink Where there is a flame, someone's bound to get burned But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die You've gotta get up and try, try, try
