Quotes About Endurance

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

I like physically-demanding reality shows, not dance and music shows.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

I loved it. I enjoyed myself so much, and that was what other people couldn't realize. They thought I was going through a nightmare running all day long.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

By the end of my career I just really hated being out there on that field and being subjected to what was happening to me.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

I just try to stay fit. That's important - just to try to stay physically fit so you can go out there and play. You do need to be in reasonable shape.

I guess I have a reasonable physique for the sport I do.

I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything hurts.

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Since I've gotten stronger, I can hold a guy off and get a rebound.

I'm trying to be in the best shape of my life. I'm getting stronger and more athletic to help rebound and to guard bigger opponents.

I'm feeling like I can stay on the floor for a while. I can run the floor. I can fight in the post with guys. I can rebound.

As a schoolboy I can recall playing three games a week and not even feeling it.

It's an honor to sit back and see people loving the things that you did 25 years ago and still be here and be amongst the crowd to receive those blessings.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end.

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.