It's an enigma, a conundrum, an oxymoron, an impracticality.  It's all these things.  But it's a powerful concept, and above all, it can be a teacher.  We can learn a lot about ourselves when we push our bodies and minds to limits previously unvisited.

This page is reserved for quotes, poems and other thoughts related in some way to Dead Game but scoured from many different sources.

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling."  - Lucretius

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur (American General who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, 1880-1964)

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie (French Physicist, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, 1867-1934)

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"I’m going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it." – Steve Prefontaine