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David Goggins is a retired Navy SEAL and the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces ever to complete SEAL training, U.S. Army Ranger School, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training.…
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A practitioner is the person who goes out and breaks the limits of the mind, the soul, the body. A practitioner listens, and understands that the voices who say things cannot be done are theorists.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
You must call yourself out for who you're not, and that's where you start to grow. That's where you can really fix the problems in your life when you recognise that.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
I need failure like I need air. Unless people understand what failure is, they can't grow. I find growth in suffering, in pain and in failure.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
You have to be your own hero; that doesn't mean sticking your head up your own ass- but being accountable for who you are as a person and finding strength from within.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
To overcome extreme obstacles, to do the impossible, you have to create another human being inside yourself. I had to create an image of how I wanted to look, how I wanted to act, how I wanted to believe, how hard I wanted to push. I trained that image in my mind, and then I had to become an artist to create it.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
You have to go into a very quiet place in your mind, away from the noise of the world, the noise of doubters, insecurities and your own self. You have to quiet your disbelief and create open mindedness to your own ability to succeed and overcome.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
Nobody knows how far we can go as humans and so I listened only to myself and my body and pushed it to go beyond perceived limitations, and guess what – outside that boundary is a whole new life where you really start to live.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
I don't see things as impossible; I got right to the equations to figure out how this could be achieved; I didn't put a barrier on my mind or body. A practitioner is the person who goes out and breaks the limits of the mind, the soul, the body.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
To overcome extreme obstacles, to do the impossible, you have to create another human being inside yourself. I had to create an image of how I wanted to look, how I wanted to act, how I wanted to believe, how hard I wanted to push. I trained that image in my mind, and then I had to become an artist to create it.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
You have to go into a very quiet place in your mind, away from the noise of the world, the noise of doubters, insecurities and your own self. You have to quiet your disbelief and create open mindedness to your own ability to succeed and overcome.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
Very few people know how the bottom feels, but I do. It's like quicksand. It grabs you, sucks you under and won't let go. When life is like that it's easy to drift and continue to make the same comfortable choices that are killing you, over and over again.
— David GogginsUltramarathon Runner, Navy SEAL, & Motivational Speaker
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