Quotes About Endurance

I'm not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.