Quotes About Endurance

Do what you must, let happen what may

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Pilates is great for stretching and building core strength, which is vital when it comes to getting the most out of your runs.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality in my life.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

If you're interested in a 'Teen Vogue' internship, take note: it's not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

I think all volleyball players are playing with some type of shoulder injury. You use it so much.

Besides being a national level basketball champion, I have played a lot of other sports like volleyball, badminton, kho-kho, and kabbadi.

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.

Going into a game, I know that I'm going to run a lot. I know I'm going to have a lot of volume, and I know that I'm going to get hit a lot, which is great. Sometimes we try to deliver some blows, too, try to break as many tackles as possible. We know it's going to hurt the next day. That's why we love the game.

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

The closer you get to competition the volume of training you actually do is less, so as to allow your body to rest and recover between sessions.

There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

If you look at the likes of Agnieszka Radwanska and Svetlana Kuznetsova, they've been around a long time and been successful for a long time. That speaks volumes for them.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great.

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.