Quotes About Endurance

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.

Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.

Everyone doubted I could go 10 rounds because my fights have stopped early. But I knew I could because of the work I'd done in the gym.

Training for five-round fights is too much for the body.

In my fights, it's not if I get hit; it's when I get hit.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

I've been in a few fights where I keep drilling guys - Carl Froch, those sort of people - and they just keep coming.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

I've been through Strikeforce, UFC now, but I never leave fights busted up.

In general, I think longer fights benefits jiu-jitsu fighters because the other guy can make mistakes.

Very few people can reach 100 fights.

Jiu-jitsu fighters usually have an advantage in longer fights even though MMA has breaks between rounds.

One hundred fights and I will stop.

I never pull out of the fights.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.

For most of the competitors, winning the Dakar has little to do with the standings on the final day and everything to do with making it to the final day.

Losing one final, that happens, but when it happens three times in a row, that is something else entirely.

Though I participated on 'Khatron Ke Khiladi,' people were laughing at me if I would reach the finale.

Living in the 'Bigg Boss' house is a roller-coaster ride. I didn't expect to reach the finals. But I was sure that I would be in the top five.

It's been well chronicled that I've had a lot of losses in finals.