Quotes About Endurance

For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.

Every play, I'm trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don't want to be on the field anymore.

More than a quarter of a century into the band's career together, it's inspiring to hear Melvins continue to deafen new generations of listeners.

We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

As long as you keep your body healthy quarterback is a position where you should get better as you age.

I'm not the first quarterback to have an off game. I won't be the last.

I love protections, I love plays. If you don't like that being a quarterback, you're not going to last long.

I mean, I just try to run hard all four quarters.

I want to be able to press a person all four quarters of a game until he just can't take it anymore.

Historically I've been really good in fourth quarters actually.

I think whether home or away, it's playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.

Closing games out in this league is hard. You have a lot of good players that you are facing, and fourth quarters are tough to handle because teams are going to make their run.

It's the quest for perfection that makes athletes great.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

The quick knockouts are nice, but going through a war now and again is a good experience to know I've done it.

The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.

Time has never really been an issue in Test cricket, especially in the modern game where things naturally move quicker than they have in the past.

The bigger size of the weight class, guys are going to get tired a little bit quicker. They get tired to where they can't even keep their hands up in the fourth and fifth round.

I just have an ability to heal quicker than others I guess.

We're going to work hard on my body, put on some muscles. That's going to help me a lot to run faster, to move quicker, to jump higher.