2231 | Jesse Itzler: “The Words that You Speak Matter.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When Jesse Itzler hit a 38-mile wall in his ultramarathon training, a Navy SEAL named Chad Wright helped him break through it — not with a new training plan, but with mindset-shifting wisdom. In today’s episode, Jesse shares the three rules that got him across the 100-mile finish line.

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QOD is the words that you speak matter.
0:05.3	Here we go. Welcome back to the quote of the day show.
0:33.1	I'm your host Sean Croxton, and Sean Croxton.com.
0:35.7	We got Jesse Isler back on the show to wrap up our week.
0:39.2	Today he is going to remind you of the power of I Will Not Quit.
0:46.1	Jesse Itzler is coming up.
0:48.9	So a couple of years ago, I was running a race.
0:51.7	I'm an endurance runner called The Last Man Standing.
0:54.0	Here's the format of the race. It's a 4.2 mile loop. years ago, I was running a race, I'm an endurance runner, called The Last Man Standing.
1:01.1	Here's the format of the race. It's a 4.2 mile loop. You have an hour to complete it. If you complete it in under an hour, say 50 minutes, you have a 10-minute break because they line you
1:05.8	up at the top of the starting line at the top of the hour to run that loop again. And they repeat that process over and over until one person's left.
1:15.9	The last man's standing.
1:17.6	The race can go on for days.
1:19.6	During my training, I did 10 training runs of 38 miles.
1:24.4	And every time I got the 38 miles, I stopped.
1:27.8	That was my limit.
1:29.1	38 miles.
1:30.1	Not bad for a 50-something-year-old guy, but that's not going to get you very far in this race.
1:35.4	Then I heard of a guy named Chad Wright, a Navy SEAL, talking on a podcast of how he took a guy at the starting line of a hundred mile race that had only run
1:46.0	five miles and got them all the way to the finish line of the 100 mile run by saying,
1:51.9	I will not quit, I will not quit, I will not quit.
1:55.1	I said, that's impossible, man.
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