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Old 11-03-2010, 14:52   #16
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Old 11-03-2010, 20:25   #17
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Old 11-03-2010, 20:30   #18
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Old 11-04-2010, 02:47   #20
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."

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Old 11-04-2010, 07:45   #21
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Old 11-04-2010, 19:45   #22
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Mental toughness is to physical, as four is to one. -Bobby Knight
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Old 11-05-2010, 09:09   #23
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Old 11-05-2010, 09:28   #24
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:43   #25
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"You will deal with one of two pains in your life. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The great thing is, you get to choose."
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Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." William Ernest Henley
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Old 11-14-2010, 18:53   #26
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F*ck a day off I'm moving heavy for the payoff.

-John Cena
Did you really just quote an actor/wrestler/rapper in a thread about mindset?

If this is all you have to add you should seriously consider not adding anything in the future.
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Old 11-14-2010, 21:52   #27
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Old 11-15-2010, 04:57   #28
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Old 11-15-2010, 09:25   #30
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Dec.23, 1944 - "Battle of the Bulge"
An entire U.S. armored division is retreating from the Germans in the Ardennes forest when a sergeant in a tank destroyer spotted an American digging a foxhole. The GI, PFC Martin, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, looked up and asked, "Are you looking for a safe place?" "Yeah," answered the tanker.

"Well, buddy," he drawled, "Just pull your vehicle behind me...
I'm the 82nd Airborne, and this is as far as the bastards are going."
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