Cycling hurts...

In my favorite scene from Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence, after lighting a colleague’s cigarette, allows the match to burn down to his fingertips before snuffing it out. Having witnessed the stunt, the dim-witted associate attempts it himself, only to blow out the match before it gets anywhere close to burning down. “That damn well hurts!”, he states, barely concealing his amazement. “Certainly it hurts,” replies Lawrence with cool calm. 

“Well, what’s the trick then?”

“The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”

For the full transcript:

http://www.velominati.com/blog/defining-moments/la-vie-velominatus-not-minding-that-it-hurts/