Quotes About Endurance

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

The game isn't over till it's over.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.