Quotes About Endurance

Running had become such an obsession that even when asleep, I would run races in my dreams.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

Racing is very physical.

I stopped because I was tired of always racing.

With racing, there's not one thing you need to be really strong at, it's a combination. You need a good base of cardio, good core, good neck strength. I think core and neck are the most important, but it's certainly not my favourite. Neck training is pretty boring.

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.

I think for me, I've always come back to the fact that I feel most alive when I'm racing. That sounds very cliche, but for me the reason I feel that is because racing is that opportunity to really find your limit.

Metal never dies. Sometimes it's not on the radio and sometimes it's not at the forefront, but heavy rock or metal, or whatever the hell you want to call it, has always been around and will always be around.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

Dancing is never excruciating as preparing for it is. For instance, the song 'Chamma Chamma' had heavy outfits and even more heavy jewellery. 'Kambakht Ishq' was shot in extreme heat during the day and a rain sequence in the night, so we were literally drenched throughout the night.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Hope raises no dust.

I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.