Quotes About Endurance

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

I'm usually sick after a fight. But then the brain swelling goes down, and I'm just hungry as hell.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life. Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

There are some days where I'll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that's a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar - cookies, desserts, those sorts of things.

It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

If you fight improperly, you can be in great shape, run marathons, swim 200 meters and I can still gas you in two minutes of a fight. If you don't know how to fight, it doesn't matter.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Being on the podium, of course, is enjoyable, but the majority of what - not just myself, not just swimmers, I think the majority of all athletes - it's not necessarily fun, the core of the whole process.

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

I'm a 100m/200m swimmer so I have the early speed.

Swimming gives me immense satisfaction.

As long as I'm enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming.

For swimming, we don't really have an offseason.

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.

I want to continue the sport of swimming. I'm not going to give up until I think it's reached where I want it to go.

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

If I was satisfied I wouldn't keep swimming.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.