Quotes About Endurance

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I'm familiar with adversity.

I'm a hardened old guy. I've been cut in so many ways and dumped on by so many teams, I've been through it all, but I'd do it all over.

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.

If I was a stone mason or if I was a painter or building bridges or whatever, there's going to be some wear and tear on your body and your brain. And that's just the way it is.

Every day I wake up, and I think about the wear and tear on my body, and will I be able to continue to perform at a high level. Sometimes I'm working with guys that are 15 years younger than me, 20 years younger than me.

You're using the same body parts over and over again, eventually there will be wear and tear.

Sixteen, 17 games in a season is a lot of wear and tear on the body, especially for guys who don't come out when they're playing.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

I don't think you're very strong unless you've cried a few tears. You've never really lived.

I give blood, sweat and tears inside the ring and I'm never going to stop working.

I've been Tech N9ne since '88.

Free soloing is almost as old as climbing itself, with roots in the 19th century. Climbers are continuing to push the boundaries. There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.

I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?