Quotes About Endurance

There are three requisites for growth without bound, and only three: the will to remake oneself, the genius to survive, and the strength to suffer.

When I was 30, I used to wonder when I was going to quit playing. Use disorder worry about it. Now, I know I'm never going to quit.

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.

There's a reason why you never see large-chested women finishing marathons first. They've been beaten to death by their breasts around Mile 5. It ain't pretty.

but it really hurt, so she

it ate away at me when i was already full of holes

hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness

Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?

They Can Bury Us Deep, But We Always Grow Back." — Poison Ivy

The human race. No winners, just slower losers.

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot

It had been said that the marathon doesn't really begin until mile twenty. I say mile twenty-six would be more appropriate. The final two-tenths of a mile is filled with emotion. No matter how desperately you're struggling at this point, thoughts typically drift away from the immediate task at hand (ie, survival) to broader feelings.

I started running to escape the memories that drinking couldn't cover up

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. If you want to talk to God, run an ultra.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot The

In my mind, you win when you reach the start line, not the finish line.

Running has a way of possessing your soul, infiltrating your psyche, and quietly becoming your central life force. The difference between a jogger and a runner is that a jogger still has control of his life. We runners have lost it.

When you're going through hell, keep going.

Runs end, running is forever.

And thus I kept doing it. Mile 20 passed. Mile 23 passed. Mile 26 passed. Running an ultra is simple; all you have to do is not stop.

When you're going through hell, keep going. —Winston Churchill

All racers are runners, but not all runners are racers.