Quotes About Endurance

The mental side of rehab is by far more difficult than the physical side of rehab. There's a lot of time when you are alone and a lot of time when you are contemplating, a lot of time to think. The mental side is the hardest part.

There's days when my body's better than other days. It still gives me problems. But it's very manageable. Rehab is forever my friend.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Once you reinvent yourself three, four, five times, you eventually just realize you can do this infinitely, with whatever time you have.

I've got a very tough skin because I've been doing this for a long time. Rejection is simply part of it.

I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

I have a love-hate relationship with cardio.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

What I need to do is relax, take my time, and make my shots count. That will give me more energy later in the fights but also allow me to throw the punches harder.

A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.

When you're in a fight camp, you're working your body harder than normal and it's important to still look after yourself and to relax.

I enjoy boxing, it's a good release. I do that to push myself physically.

I like to box. It's a great release.

I think the only bones I haven't broken are my shoulder, hip, and thigh.

Sometimes when I think you get fatigued, a little extra inflammation in the back and hip, it's harder to move fast and you lose a little bit of bat speed.

I've been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

I've learned that, bizarrely, I enjoy having a fight. Obviously nobody likes getting hit, but I don't have a problem with it. In MMA you've got to take a few hits to reach the right position.

It's football. You take weird hits. That's what you prepare for in the offseason so your body can take all those weird hits and you can get right back up.

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

Tennis is a running game, not a hitting game - it's not golf.