Quotes About Endurance

I've realised I've hit enough tennis balls to last me a lifetime.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

I went goodness knows how long without a bath.

Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.

I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.

You gotta have faith. You gotta keep your head up.

Sometimes, the best shots you can put up are the ones when you don't shoot the ball - you gotta give your legs a rest sometimes.

Some of the life lessons that my mom has taught me is that the road is not for the fastest or the swiftest, but it's for those who enjoy it to the end. Just telling you that life is not pure grace. It's like a marathon.

I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.

You have people who are out there age 30-plus still competing on the grand stage. If I keep in shape, keep to a certain speed and turn it up when I need to, I think I will be able to get out there and run what I need to run.

I got a granite chin.

Somebody showed me a fight where somebody had gotten cut on the forehead and was just gushing blood and kept going throughout the fight. I couldn't grasp the concept that anybody would want to do that.

I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

If you want to be a great team, you've got to be able to play 48 minutes.