Quotes About Endurance

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.

I have always taken a step forward and believe that slow and steady wins the race.

Slow but steady wins the race.

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I've been training for a marathon my whole life.

You know, for me, you don't chase wins.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.

'Roadies' tests your mental and physical ability in the most challenging way, and I have gone through this.

To play 100 Tests is a lot of miles in the legs and just thinking about that many as a fast bowler hurts my back!

Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.

The people of this country remember me. I may have started dyeing my beard, but I am recognized at airports, railway stations - anywhere. School textbooks have chapters on me, and somehow the sobriquet 'The Flying Sikh' has endured in people's memory.

I've been training in martial arts since I was a baby running around the school. Everything from wrestling to muay thai. I started wrestling when I was 15.

There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

Thank goodness I was blessed with a hard head.

I am very proud of my career and that I've the health, thank God, to continue doing this for so long.

For me to be here at album number six, it's kind of a way to say, 'Thank you for allowing me to be here... to still be around.'

Thankfully, hamstring injuries don't take that long to heal.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

Once I close the doors, it's closed. I don't open it back up. That's kind of me as a human being. That's just one of the things about me... But yeah, for me, I don't close anything until I'm officially done.

The hardest climb for me was Kangchenjunga, at 28,169 feet the world's third-highest mountain. The first thing that made this summit difficult was the speed that I climbed and summited two 8,000-er's, back-to-back.

The hardest thing about 'Strictly' is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.