Quotes About Endurance

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.

In hockey, sometimes a shift can go for a minute and a half, full out.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

You can't afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.

We always have hope. Hope dies last.

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

There's always hope, and there's always despair.

For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.

I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

It's just about taking each game as it comes and hopefully being up there at the end of the season.

I just want people to not assume their story is over, especially when maybe they have somebody in their life that they've given up on or they think it's hopeless.

Spend not on hopes.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I was lucky I was blessed with the constitution of a horse.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.