Quotes About Endurance

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

A game is not won until it is lost.

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it's quite hard. If you give up a second time, it's a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it's starting to become a habit.

One of my first races came over 10km in 2002. I won that race and it felt great. I would say that is when I first fell in love with running.

I won my first Champions League in 1989, and I won my last one 18 years later.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

The game is never lost till won.

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

Fitness gives you confidence, and if you're fit, you don't have to wonder whether you'll last the 90 minutes.

People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove 'em wrong.

MMA makes you sore and tired every day. I wonder what we're going to be like when we're 50 or 60. I wake up some mornings and just say, 'Oh, God.' And then I go scuba diving.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

There have been a few times when I wondered if I was ever going to take a wicket, but you never give up.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

I love sitting through long things. I mean, 'Gone With the Wind' I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four hours, for anything. I love being on a train. I love sitting down for four hours. I think it's the most wonderful thing to be able to sit somewhere and concentrate on something for more than two hours.

With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer - still running and continuing to fill house all around the word - it's really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

If you walk away, don't walk away with something still left in the tank. Then you're wondering like, 'Man, what could I have done?' When I'm done playing, I want to leave it all out on the field.

I'm not into one-hit wonders.

I don't make one hit wonders.