Quotes About Endurance

Patience pays off.

Sometimes patience pays. That's what I always thought.

In this business, believing in your work, being patient and consistent always pays off.

During your career, you put yourself in peak physical condition, but then you bear the brunt of it for the rest of your life.

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

You don't want to hit your peak until late in the season.

At some point, the power side of the game has to peak, players can't get much bigger. Guys will be doing more footwork and explosive-speed stuff.

Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.

It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

Give me the action. I come from a place of fighters. My father was a fighter, a boxer, and Penny loves to box. So give it to me until my body won't do it anymore. Bring it on.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

You cannot always play at 100 per cent, especially at the end of the season when you don't have much energy left.

Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.

It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.

Everyone seems to have this perception that I'm injury-prone or I've had a lot of injuries, and that's not the case at all.

I'm big. I'm strong. I'm fast. I have the hips. I have the footwork. I'm always trying to perfect my craft, and at the end of the day, I'm just a competitor.

But, perfection is something that is a constant thing you need to achieve. It is not that you have achieved it and it's gonna stay. It's everyday hardwork.

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

I need to maintain my performance levels high for many seasons. I hope I can do that.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.