Quotes About Endurance

A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.

Speed is something that, in the heavyweight division, we don't have a lot of.

Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

My game is not always built off speed, it's just my craft to where I can run routes and get in-and-out of my breaks as a big guy keeps me at a consistent level for a long time.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.

You must be fast enough - you must have endurance. So you run fast for speed and repeat it many times for endurance.

Being 230 pounds, a lot of people don't think you can move the way I need to move, so that is just all the hard work I put into my legs and working on my speed and my legs.

I've had such a tough time making weight at 155 all the time. I'd make the weight, but I don't feel like the same kind of Sage. My power in my punches, my explosion, my speed - it just doesn't feel the same.

The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.