Quotes About Endurance

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

When I was in school, we would always have running races. I was good at it. Always sprinting. I can run long distance, too.

No one likes going out and sprinting 20 sprints, but you do it because it's going to help you.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

Stand in front of the firing squad with your head held high and take the bullets. It's okay, eventually the bullets will run out. You will fall down and rise again, no big deal.

The season lasts a long time, and we need not only a high-level squad but also a big squad.

They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

I thought playing baseball would give me a break from being in a squat position all day, but it didn't. I could not handle the pain anymore.

I've managed to play most games every season for many seasons. That gives you confidence and stability.

There are times when I'm on the athletics track when I can't control my movement or I'm not able to maintain my hip stability and I am wobbling all over the place.

My relationships are fairly stable.

When you have two races in a row, it's really important to keep that mental energy stable.

There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.

Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.

I haven't always been into fitness. But I noticed that when I'd be on stage playing a show, I could hardly make it through the fifth song without having to take a breather.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

I like playing in the later stages of games because there is more space when everybody's legs are tired.