Quotes About Endurance

I have the game for the pressure matches and now I just have to be consistent.

I am really looking forward to being present in my first three-week race, the Giro d'Italia, a huge and prestigious event that captures one's imagination.

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

'Happy girls are the prettiest,' and to be in the camera frame makes me happy. I just want myself to keep working. I can be in front of the camera for 48 hours continuously without any breaks.

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

When you're out here grinding away, firing at some flags, firing at the middle of the green, you just got to be very patient, and I always do a pretty good job of that in the majors.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

I've always been a pretty good athlete.

I have never needed operations, I have had niggles the same as any other golfer after putting his body through 17 years of travel and a heavy playing schedule. I think I'm actually in pretty good shape considering the amount of hours spent hitting balls and sitting on an aeroplane.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

I dare you to be married for 44 years and exceed anyone's expectations.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

I don't have an expiry date. My body is my answer - when I see that I can no longer compete, when my head is not in it anymore, it will be the time to stop.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

The beast is not dead.

I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.

I've been lucky enough to love dearly the people I cared for, but even then there were times when I thought, 'I can't bear any more.'

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

The pressure of kind of being one of the top guys for almost a decade, it's been awesome.

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

It's been two decades. I feel blessed that I'm still working, and people still want to see me.