Quotes About Endurance

Even a life of pain is not worth wasting.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. — Psalms 71:14

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

all the boys had a contest to see who could spin around in circles the longest without throwing up.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?

Guilt was a living, breathing thing. Guilt could tie you tighter than ropes, and he should know. He had extensive experience with both. He'd been the captive of a madman, along with Jess, for three days that had felt like an eternity. Then, this past year, he'd been a POW in Afghanistan, the prisoner of insurgents, for six torturous months. Yet it had been the three days with Jess that had broken him in ways the insurgents could never accomplish.

I'm tired of hurting, Lord. I'm tired of being scared. I'm tired of losing.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

We mushrooms are used to being kept in the dark and fed shit three times a day.

He told me patience was the most important thing when you wanted something. He told me not to rush, that rushing just got you nowhere faster.

Each week, you'll do seven workouts: 3—interval cardio sessions 1—upper body workout 1—lower body workout 1—abs workout 1—long circuit Each workout is designed to take somewhere between twenty and twenty-five minutes, except for the "long circuit," which will take between thirty and forty-five minutes.

AMRAP: As Many Reps as Possible. If you see AMRAP, it means I've given you a time period in which to do as many repetitions of the exercise as you can.

Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.

What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die?

We've been doing many of these (Covid safe) things for months. But as we seek to reach – and then maintain – COVID Normal, they'll still be as important as ever.

People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work. That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing.

As Wooden also said, "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.