Quotes About Endurance

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Happiness is a form of courage.

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.