Quotes About Challenge

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

I didn't like the way the game was being played.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

I run to see who has the most guts.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

We have not yet begun to fight.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.