Quotes About Endurance

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

Contrary to popular belief, quitting will get you to where you want to go faster.

Quitting means failing, capitulating, losing. Quitting shows a lack of character. Quitters are losers (except, of course, when it involves giving up something obviously bad like smoking, alcohol, drugs, or an abusive relationship).

There is a rich universe of science studying the human tendency to persevere too long, particularly in the face of bad news.

This is why poker players remind themselves that poker is one long game. We would all do well to remember that life is one long game as well.

As you already know, grit is good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.

That we make both types of errors, sometimes sticking too long and sometimes giving up too early, shouldn't be that surprising because whether to stick or quit aren't separate decisions. They are one and the same. Whenever you choose to stick, you are, by definition, not quitting. The reverse is true when you choose to quit.

All these famous people, and countless others, have united behind variations of the expression "Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

Tout de même, supporter tant de mépris... Vronski, pire que Vronski.

Il m'arrivait d'oublier que j'était enceinte de deux mois. C'est sans doute à cause de cet effacement de l'avenir, par lequel l'esprit endort lui-même l'angoisse de l'échéance, qu'il sait pourtant inévitable, que des filles laissaient passer les semaines, pus les mois, jusqu'au terme.

Ce sera dur. » Au début, je ne comprends pas bien mais il ajoute : « J'espère que pour toi aussi ce sera dur. » Voilà sa façon de dire qu'il tient à moi.

At the highest speed I can sustain on the hills, about 14 minutes for a mile, I do not even try to think of anything else.

Achieving transient hypofrontality generally requires exercising at one's "ventilatory threshold"—the point at which breathing becomes labored, corresponding to about 80 percent of the exerciser's maximum heart rate—for forty minutes or more.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

At mile 20, I thought I was dead. At mile 22, I wished I was dead. At mile 24, I knew I was dead. At mile 26.2, I realized I had become too tough to kill.

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

I train my entire body to be strong. To be a professional athlete, we need every part to be strong - the core, the legs, arms.

There isn't a professional athlete that doesn't want to play 12, 13 years.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

It's normal to be under pressure. I'm fighting professionally for 15 years, and it's always been like that.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

If there's anything I'm proud of in my career, it's that I've been able to hang in there and keep progressing over the years.