Living with a SEAL Quotes

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“SEAL, I have a problem,” I say to him. “I didn’t bring any extra underwear.” “So what?” “I can’t run without underwear.” “Nah, bro, you can’t run without legs. It’s on.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Most of my successes in life have come from learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“If you don't challenge yourself, you don't know yourself. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Roger that. So go fuck your bullshit shoulders,” he says. “Whatever you got going on, someone else has more pain. You gotta learn how to fight through it. No matter what it is… Think about someone else and take a suck-shit pill.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“It doesn’t have to be fun. It has to be effective. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Every day do something that makes you uncomfortable. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I learned that by constantly doing things that are hard and making myself uncomfortable, I improve my ability to handle obstacles. I get comfortable being uncomfortable—and that’s real mental toughness.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Sara also likes to think of money as a big magnifying glass. If you are a good person before you had money… then money makes you an even better person. If you were a charitable person before you had money… then money makes you even more charitable. But if you were an asshole before you had money… well then, money makes you an even bigger asshole.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I don’t do shit for applauses. I don’t do shit for fanfare. I do shit for me. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“SEAL says to me: “It’s not what you do, it’s when and how you do it. It’s all about the conditions. Remember that.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Don’t get too comfortable. Ever. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I believe in life résumés. Do more. Create memories.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can't see yourself doing something, usually you can't achieve it. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“When you think you’re done, you’re only at forty percent of what your body is capable of doing. That’s just the limit that we put on ourselves.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Coasting is for “pussies” as SEAL would say and it’s when you dig deep that you feel the most alive. He lives his life that way. And some of that rubbed off on me.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“The elements are in your mind. I don’t ever check the temperature when I run. Who gives a fuck what the temperature on the computer says?”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“Even the way he spit was scary. If he hit you with it, it likely would leave a scar. He was intimidating. Physically, the man looked like someone sprayed muscle paint all over his body. Ripped. Flawless.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I don’t want the same shit you guys want. I’m not looking for anything else. I’m going to do the same shit I’ve been doing,” he says, “only I’m going to do it better.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I don’t need new friends. I like to keep my shit lean and tight.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“If you can’t do the basics, you can’t do shit.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“I eat only fruit until noon. That’s been my thing since I read Fit for Life by Harvey Diamond in 1992. For over twenty-five years, just fruit till noon.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing something, usually you can’t achieve it. —SEAL New York City”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“The silverback gorilla doesn’t eat turkey sandwiches, chips, and McDonald’s.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“their diet is made up mostly of fruit and leaves.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“strongest animals in the world thrive on a fruit-and plant-based diet. Silverback gorillas, for example, are thirty times as strong as man and three times our size. Their DNA is 99 percent similar to that of humans, and they are our closest living relatives next to chimps. How are they so strong? Oh”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“we can all do so much more.”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“if you have a job to do, you do it with 120 percent effort. I”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

“If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing something, usually you can’t achieve it. —SEAL”
― Jesse Itzler, Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet