Quotes About Endurance

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

I played street football from the age of seven and later went into the varzea. Sometimes I'd play as many as three or four matches a day: I couldn't get enough of it. It'd get to the point when my muscles would cramp up.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Dancing isn't easy, and to just jump into three to four hours of rehearsals a day is a lot.

My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.

Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.

Doctors have told me I have a high pain threshold, but I can only know what I feel. I think I'm good at minimising the pain and being indifferent to it.

I do have a very strong threshold for anger.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

Obviously, teams start wearing down. But that's kind of when you thrive, when the other team starts to get tired.

I have brought up my kids single-handedly. So a strenuous routine is something I thrive on, not shy away from.

Me, personally, I thrive under pressure.

I never get sick - not a cold, not a cough or sore throat. Everyone around me can be hacking up a lung, and I'm fine.

I've strained some muscles here and there, in my throat, even my jaw. Nothing that doesn't heal quickly.

I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.