KX Riders
General => In General... => Topic started by: BDI on June 29, 2010, 06:14:52 AM
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Growing up my dad taught me two sayings that have always stuck with me and has had an impact on everything I do. One is anything worth doing is worth doing right and the other is if you do it right the first time you won't have to do it again. What motto or saying has shaped your life?
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Life is Tough... It's Tougher When You're Stupid!
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quotes from my dad
"if you cant start it you cant ride it"
"you better pay atention becouse this is the last time im fixing this for you"
"you better get a job"
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There are a lot of sayings that have shaped my life and get me through the tough times. Here are just a few.
keep plugging away
slow and steady
this too will pass
try to minimize the wrong
stick to the plan
do the right thing, especially when nobody is looking
forgive yourself and others
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Live today, for tomorrow may never come
it is in my signature line and I feel it the most appropriate saying I have ever heard, how many people do you know that always say I'll do it tomorrow or next week and they never get around to doing it, My parents were that way, gotta save for retirement and not do anything, both died before they were ever able to enjoy it. When my time is up I want to be able to say I've done everything I wanted to do.
Ok so another of my dads famous sayings, "its just as easy to be five minutes early as it is to be five minutes late" I think we all have friends that couldn't be on time if their lives depended on it, I have a friend I always say we're leaving a half hour earlier than we plan to, then h's only 15 minutes late.
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Go faster than everyone else, you only have to worry about what's in front of you.
Dress for the crash not for the ride.
A friend of mine, when getting a DUI and not cooperating was asked
"Do you want to go to jail with lumps or without lumps?"
I picked him up in front of the jail after he OR'ed out.
I gave him one of my sayings
"If you want to argue with the cops, do it in a court room."
And then the oil field sayings.
There are 2 kinds of can't: Can't do it and can't stay. (In other words "Your fired if you can't do it.")
If your riding with me you better come on.
When co- worker is using a sledge hammer you tell them: Hit it like you live.
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This one was my mothers when she worked in sales for a bit of a dodgy fertiliser company and I kind of adopted it as mine as well.
Its not perfect Latin but it works for me.
Nil illegitimi carborundum, or Don't let the bastards grind you down
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My freedom to be offensive TRUMPS your freedom to be free from offense!
torch
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One I made up years ago and still use today:
Try it. If it works, then it worked. If it doesn't work, then it didn't work. Try again.
My boss told me this a long time ago:
No matter what else is going on in your life, work is one place you can come that is always stable and controllable.
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bdi . i live by that most of the time lol . (dress for the crash not for the ride)
never pass up a time to do what you love and take a friend with you .
push your self before someone else does.
you dont have to be faster than the other guy just faster than you were the last time.
smile when you limp . you never know how is watching.
danger you will like this .
DANGER IS NATURES WAY OF SELECTING THE STUPID!!!
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I don't have to out run the grizzly bear, I just have to out run you.
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I have my own that I like to say when we go street biking. You don't have to out swim the shark, you only have to out swim your buddy. :-D. keepem coming, this is way cool.
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BDI, that's a good one! Lot's of good ones.
Doldguy's signature is way cool.
My dad, when talking of his lifestyle, always told me "no one will be happy when I die!" - spent all da'money
Here's another one of my dad's...
No Matter how fast you are, someone is faster.
No matter how hard you train, someone trains harder.
No matter how bad you want it, someone wants it more.
BE SOMEONE!
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my "motto" is this. learn at least one new thing everyday that you didn't know the day before. if you don't learn at least one new thing everyday, then there is something wrong.
my dads saying, "pay attention, so you can do this nexttime. i'm not doing this for you everytime for the rest of your life."
i wish i would have payed attention more when my dad fixed stuff when i was a teenager. it took me years to learn stuff on my own. if i would have took my dads free lessons, i would have had the knowledge in my teens.
when my 3 oldest of 4 kids (1 boy, 2 girls) got their own vehicles, i made them learn to do their own maintenance. they didn't like it at the time, but they really appreciate the ability now.
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saw this in a restaurant last night.
"never approach a Bull from the front, never approach a Horse from the rear, and never approach a Fool from any direction"
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When I was a teenager growing up and knew everything there was to know. :-D I used to come home and complain to my dad, when I got an F, that school was dumb and the teachers didn't know what they were talking about. My dad would tell me,
"Boy, even the dumbest person on the world can teach you something, so pay attention."
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I used to have a grade checker that would say " even a blind squirrrel finds a nut every once in a while".
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A broken clock is right twice a day.
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Wat niet past,word verlast..
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'Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it' and 'mistakes are fine as long as you only make 'em once'.
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My favourite two are: "If you're still in control you're not going fast enough" and "there's no substitute for cubic inches"
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Speaking on fiscal responsibility and money management: It wasn't the hard times that got me into (financial) trouble,,,it was the good times.
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here`s a good one
youth and ambition is no match for old age and tracery
also off a small town earery.
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"Caveat emptor" (Let the buyer beware.)
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Live to ride......ride to die. Cam.
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here is some i like
"you don't stop riding because you get old, you get old because you stopped ring"
"when in doubt throttle out" got that one covering the warning sticker on the throttle side hand guard.
(http://173.74.246.28/ktmtalk/photogallery/galleries/Parts_Mods/widto.jpg)
"you lift you lose"
"Harley Davidson, the most enchant way to convert gas into noise with out the side effects of horse power"
" pin it to win it"
"some fear, because no fear means your not pushing it far enough"
"a bad day riding (or racing) is better than a god day at work"
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"Excuse me,Miss...may I taste you"??
"If you can't lick 'em...lick 'em"!!
"Aw phuck it...i'm ridin' my Maico"
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KX Riders Prayer
Now I lay down to sleep.
I pray the lord my K5 to keep
For if I should die before I wake
Let me ride like hell through heavens gate
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Give the laziest guy the hardest job, and he'll show you the easiest way to do it.
Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
If you buy cheap, you buy twice.
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"An amateur will practice until they get it right; A professional will practice until they cannot get it wrong"
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Joes bar, liquor in the front poker in the rear
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Joes bar, liquor in the front poker in the rear
That's the saying you live by?
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quote from phil harris on deadlest catch .
I gave you all the tools to kill your self and you couldn't even do that .
sort of rings true to working and riding the k5 .
I all ways say to people that tell me i am going to die riding the way i do and i tell them you could die taking a shower ( I take a pretty mean shower ) . :roll:
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quote from phil harris on deadlest catch .
I gave you all the tools to kill your self and you couldn't even do that .
sort of rings true to working and riding the k5 .
I all ways say to people that tell me i am going to die riding the way a i do and i tell them you could die taking a shower ( I take a pretty men shower ) . :roll:
You take a "pretty men" shower?
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And he gets a pedicure every Wednesday :-D
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Joes bar, liquor in the front poker in the rear
That's the saying you live by?
I finally got it after the 3rd time I read it
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quote from phil harris on deadlest catch .
I gave you all the tools to kill your self and you couldn't even do that .
sort of rings true to working and riding the k5 .
I all ways say to people that tell me i am going to die riding the way a i do and i tell them you could die taking a shower ( I take a pretty men shower ) . :roll:
You take a "pretty men" shower?
sorry i left the a out of mean . was tired
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That's funny :lol: I saw the men thing but I didn't want to say anything because when you spell as bad as I do you don't wan't to walk around throwing rocks at people. :lol: :lol:
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too much is never enough unless its on a women . :-D