Quotes About Endurance

Apollo 13 taught me that challenges are to be met and overcome.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Chess taught me patience.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

If Jermain Taylor was a bit fitter and he had a bit more steam in the tank towards the end, he might have survived and won on points, but he didn't have any energy left in the tank, because I sapped it out of him. I absolutely punched holes in him for the last three rounds.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

Growing up in Africa teaches you to become patient.

What I bring to the table to help my team is that I'm never going to quit.

It's about making sure we're there at the end of races and we get the best possible finish we can. What comes with that is being able to have realistic expectations and not trying to do something more than what the car is capable of, so it's a team effort for sure.

That's why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

When you endure an 82-game season, you have a great opportunity to build a lot of confidence and cohesiveness with your teammates and coaches.

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

Bueno, todos debemos hacer cosas que no nos gustan, la vida es así.

And as I did it, it was like pierc­ing my own heart at the same time.

I don't believe that," I told her. "I know what love is, Mom. I've had love that burns in every fiber of my being, that drives me to be a better person and empowers me through each moment of the day. If you'd ever had something like that, you'd hold on to it with every bit of strength you had.

I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.' My immortality notwithstanding, the sentiment was sincere.