Quotes About Endurance

I've picked up a lot of muscle weight. I have to be a physically strong guy.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.

I love working out, from kick boxing to Pilates I have done it all.

I do Kathak, Pilates. I run.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

People don't see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

I felt when I was hitting guys or going for a takedown at 185, sometimes it was like hitting a wall.

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

I love doing a lot of cardio. It's not so much for the way I look. It's for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.

I wanna live long. As long as I can.

You always wanna make sure that you're not burnt out. But I feel like I've been able to find the right balance of still staying fresh in games and still being able to be productive.

I wanna get myself in such good shape that no matter how much I push myself in a fight, I know that the other guy is gonna be a little bit more tired.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don't have it, you've got no chance.