Quotes About Endurance

I guess the decathlon's never an easy walkthrough.

If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.

I'm 28 now. I've played 10 seasons in the top division, scored 170 goals in 400 games, and still I'm having to prove to people that I'm a decent player.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.

My game was always about good defence.

Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it.

The most important thing in the Royal Rumble is saving as much energy as you can. The guy who's going to win is usually going to be the guy who can defend himself the longest.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I would defend, just so long as I play.

It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.

That's one part of my game that never leaves - the defensive part.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.

I'm not a delicate man.

I'm delighted people still enjoy my music all these years later.

Wrestling is very physically demanding. You can be in great shape and still not be in ring shape.

It's always physical in the NWSL - that's why this is such a demanding league and we know that.

You can't get by at any level if you can't exert yourself physically or keep up with the demands.

Sometimes you'll have 30, 40 touches in the game, and you'll feel better than if you had 22. It depends on where you get hit and how you get hit.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.