Quotes About Endurance

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.

I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.

Early on I quickly realized I'd never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn't be one of the toughest.

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.