Quotes About Endurance

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

I like to make people quit. Whether it's because I'm striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that's the win.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.

I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

If you're not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there's no point. You win only if you're willing to do whatever it takes.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

We never give up until the ref's final whistle, we never give up we try to score one more to win the game - that's what we do.

Cyclists live with pain, if you can't handle it you will win nothing.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.

The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time.

Win or lose, just stay calm.

The run's the business end of a triathlon: it's where you win or lose the race. I like to get out very hard, make other people hurt sometimes, and other times leave it to the last kilometre and really win the race there.

If it takes me 300 balls to get a 100, then it'll take me 300 balls. That'll also tire the bowlers quite a bit too, so it's a bit of a win-win if that's the case.