Quotes About Endurance

I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center. But I'll be there.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

The National is about however long it takes to run that race - eight minutes of fame - but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn't swap any of my winners for the National.

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.

Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

There's no shortcuts to winning. You have to be willing to pay the price and be willing to sacrifice.

I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

Racing is what I love, so it's pretty simple. I want to keep doing it and keep winning.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.