Thinking

If you think you are beaten, you are



If you think you dare not, you don't,



If you like to win, but you think you can't



It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost



For out of the world we find,



Success begins with a fellow's will



It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are



You've got to think high to rise,



You've got to be sure of yourself before



You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go



To the stronger or faster man,



But soon or late the man who wins



Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

See here for more inormation on this poem by Walter D. Wintle - courtesy of Martin Keane, who is running Dublin next Monday.  He also ran in the second ever Dublin back in 1981 and has run at least 12 of them inbetween.  Legend!  Not forgetting our other co-president, Peadar Nugent, who is participating in his 35th (THIRTY FIFTH) consecutive Dubin City Marathon.  Double legend.