Quotes About Endurance

I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down.

There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.

It's about getting in there and being ready, getting the fight on your terms, taking the least amount of punishment possible.

I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment.

Big Nog and me are two different types of fighters. Nogeuira lived by his chin, he wasn't afraid to take a lot of punishment in order to dish out a whole lot of punishment. Personally, I know I can take a really big shot. I'd rather not.

I took a lot of physical punishment learning the art of fighting.

I like to have performances where I don't get too beat up and don't take too much punishment. I'm OK doing three or four times a year. That's fine by me.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

When you're in love with it you're willing to do whatever it takes, whether be it cold tubs, or massages, acupuncture, whatever it might be. I think when you love the game purely all those things you're willing to do is sacrifice.

I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

It's just like, we know how to push ourselves to the max.

Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.

I would push myself so much that in the end I would collapse and I would have to be admitted to hospital, I would pray to God to save me, promise that I would be more careful in future. And then I would do it all over again.

With back-to-backs, a lot of games, sometimes you think, 'I've got to take a day off today.' But you have to push through it. The greats did.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

I haven't been to the gym since 1998. I simply do push-ups and pull-ups, and I run. That's all.

Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.