Quotes About Endurance

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It's the first step to win over adversaries.

When I got a stronger core, my hands weren't able to keep up. They weren't able to tolerate the force my core was generating.

Rugby takes its toll.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.

Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.

You do what I did to my body, for as long as I did, and it's bound to take its toll.

Although he loved performing live, and was great at it - Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio - performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.

The game takes a toll on your body.

I played for 12, 13 years nonstop. That takes a toll on your body.

But obviously captaincy is a long process. It takes its toll as time goes on.

Not only do you have 16 regular-season games, you also have four preseason games. Then if you make the playoffs, you can have four more games before you get to the Super Bowl. So you can already have 24 games without the 18-game season. And 24 games takes a real toll on somebody's body.

Between 50 overs and 20 overs, there is a big difference, because there is 30 extra overs of fielding and six extra overs to bowl, and that can take its toll.

My back hurts real bad, every day. All those bumps took their toll. But life is good and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Fighting is hard, fighting is tough. You get beat up in the body. It's hard; it takes a toll on your body.

Skateboarding is interesting. You can't really practice it as much. It takes a big toll on your body. Your legs get really tired really fast. If I skate too much, I'll be way too sore.

After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness is consistency over a long period of time.

Some stories don't get told. Some stories you hold on to. To stand and watch and hold it in your arms was not cowardice. To look straight at the beast and feel its breath on your flanks and not to turn--one could carry the world that way. They sat together, the four of them, a little longer, before Harry rose slowly to his feet. It was Thursday. It was the end of the afternoon. It was time to pick up and carry on to the other side of the day.