Quotes About Endurance

I'm a sportsman. I am used to failures, and bouncing back from them.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it.

My experience at Florida State helped me to have the discipline to prepare as well as to endure challenging spots.

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.

Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

Life is a long marathon, and you have to be consistent. Anyone can sprint for 1500 meters, but you have pace yourself through your entire life.

I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.

Even during a sprint, I can occasionally still accelerate. I am so fit that I can accelerate during a acceleration, like making a new start.

If I run 100 meters 30 times, that is 3 kilometers and no longer a sprint.

I usually sprint for 20 to 30 metres - occasionally 50 to 60 metres maximum. But no footballer ever sprints a complete 100 metres during a game.

Building a business is a marathon, not a sprint. I don't believe it when people tell me they've been working 80-hour weeks for five years in a row. I just don't think that's possible.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

Even though I grew up racing short races and sprint car races, I really enjoy the long races. And if your car is good, you really enjoy it.

I look for every game in the same way. And I think the league is not a sprint, it's a marathon. So you don't have to score or win against the big six - you have to score and win against everyone.

In the sprint cars, you have to be so aggressive for 30 or 40 laps.

People talk about world title offers, but boxing is not a sprint, it's a marathon.

I don't have a sprinter's body.

When you win sprints, you're a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you've proved you're a great rider.

I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.