Quotes About Endurance

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

I played almost two years with a torn meniscus.

I've broken a lot of things. I've torn a lot of muscles. I've torn a lot of ligaments.

I can hold my head high for what we built in Toronto.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

Chess is mental torture.

I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

I'm always good to try something at least once. If I don't like it then I'm not doing it, but I love to try to stay in shape. I've tried spinning for an hour and a half, which was torture.

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

I've been active and dedicated to health and fitness since I was 15 years old, but I don't do it because it's good for my backside, my abs or to look good. I do it because I enjoy it and get a total buzz out of it.

The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

You've got all that 130 km. of being totally focused, and as soon as you cross the line, it takes a few seconds to realise what's happened.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

The beating soon had Laurelene nearly senseless. The carbineer began to tear away her hempcloth robe and when she tried to crawl away he dragged her back and punched her face until she lay unresisting, her legs bare and apart. He's done this before, so this is what it's like to be violated, she thought as he settled down on top of her with a long, shuddering sigh. Anything, anything, just no more beating, she thought, her eyes closed.

They just had to eat it,

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance," wrote John D. Rockefeller.