Quotes About Endurance

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

the three most important mental skills for success in endurance sports: commitment, confidence, and patience. Taken together, they form what we typically call mental toughness. Mentally tough athletes are hard to beat.

Stop when you know you can do only one more interval. The last interval is the one to be most wary of, so simply don't do it.

2º MANDAMIENTO: SÉ CONSTANTE AL ENTRENAR

the greater strength of the slow-twitch, endurance muscles following weight training allows them to carry more of the burden of powering the bike, reducing the role of the fast-twitch muscles. Since the fast-twitch muscles fatigue rather quickly, decreasing their contribution to the total force results in greater endurance.

The question is no longer whether there is a genetic component to athletic potential and endurance and strength trainability, but exactly which genes are involved and by which mechanisms and pathways they exert their effect.

Low body fat is an important predictor variable for total time performance in triathlon.

Continuing to train with high intensity results in roughly half as much decline as training with long, slow distance only.

As you learn to be your own coach, be aware of your impatience. Keep it in check. Remind yourself before a hard workout or race that you must contain your emotions early on in order to finish strongly.

If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. —Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist

Endurance is another matter altogether. Comfortable pace, regular dosage over a period of years and frequent runs stretching maybe twice as long as the average – these seem to be the keys to unlocking the almost limitless flow of endurance we're all capable of producing.

If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils.

I am always with you. Love never burns away. It just keeps on and on.

Heroism was exhausting business.

People just have to keep on going, because you never know when something wonderful is going to happen.

There was an intensity of sensation when you were on the edge of what you could handle, when you were physically tested and made to fight for each breath, that was somehow exhilarating.

What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.

O mundo inteiro pode se incendiar à nossa volta – disse Jakob. – Eu vou te abraçar até o fim. Você não vai ter como fugir de mim.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes. You're okay. You'll always be okay.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes.

We'll have to take it slow from here on out," the Fireman said. He had that one wrong.

We're stronger than we think.