Quotes About Endurance

They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.

Sometimes you get up in the morning and think you can't do it, and you just have to. The minute you stop it's like a balloon, you run out of puff - you sort of collapse in a heap. I think you live on adrenaline.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I've never pulled out of a fight, never not showed up to fight, so injured or not, I'm coming.

I'm beat up, but that's all I know; physically, I'm beat to a pulp. But I don't know anything other than pain since I'm 18 years old.

The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.

I'm very proud of 'Calvary.' It's been doing well; it has legs. It's no easy ride. It packs a punch, this one.

You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.

You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

You have to be able to take a punch. A strong neck is really important.

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.

I can take a punch.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting punched in the face.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

During the fight, if you feel something, you know it's pretty bad, because normally you don't feel anything. You get punched and elbowed in the face, you don't feel it until after the fight.