Quotes About Endurance

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

If your best offensive players go down, all you can do is hang on.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

It's a long season, and if you can go back and forth pretty well, you'll end up OK.

For all the marathons I've run, including the Ironmans that I've run, immediately after the race, I clean myself up, do whatever I need to do to make sure I'm okay, and I get right back out there, and I cheer people on. Because it's the people who come in late in the race I find most inspiring.

There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

One thing I've learned from winning an Olympic medal is that it's really exhausting.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

I don't think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I'm a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

I can't die but once.

I circuit train three times a week and run 10 km once a week.

I don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

Rome was not built in one day.

One day at a time. I live by that.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.