Quotes About Endurance

The competitive spirit never dies.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

I'm a bit like a diesel engine, you know.

I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move.

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.

That's what Stay Hyped is all about, is 'I can go when others can't, I won't tap out when others will.' It's kind of just living my mantra.

Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we're going to tape up and push through without making it worse.

I got used to interrogators asking me the same things. Before the interrogator even moves his lips I knew his questions, and as soon as he or she started to talk I turned my 'tape' on.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it's also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.

To be able to close off a run chase or finish off when you are setting a target is a real skill.

You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.

Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.

For me and other families struggling to make ends meet, paying for child care out of pocket is an impossible task.

All you can do is focus on the task at hand and if you keep doing that it will get you through.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.

It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

If you start something, you shouldn't quit; that is what we were taught. If you're going to play, you might as well play to be your best.