Quotes About Endurance

I never thought I was the greatest wrestler, but I never gave up.

You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.

Tough wrestlers have never been uncommon. Competing and performing through injuries, enduring crazy travel schedules and wrestling with no offseason just lends itself for one to have to be tough to make it long term and with success in sports-entertainment.

I think all wrestlers, you never really want it to end.

Extreme rules, hardcore wrestling - whatever they want to call it - was born out of a necessity to survive.

I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Wrestling is not an action; it is a sport.

When it comes to wrestling, I'm 100 percent confident in my abilities, and I see myself being in the ring as long as my body can handle it.

In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.

I'm built for wrestling. I have a high pain tolerance. My nose has been broken a couple times. Black eyes.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

I just think that with my wrestling background there's not going to be any doubt in my mind that if I have to go through a three round war that in the third round I'm gonna be more fresh, more tenacious, I'm gonna want that win more than anybody else I'm going to have to fight.

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

I always said when I was younger that I want to wrestle until I'm 40 or even in the 50s as long as I can still keep doing the same style of wrestling that I do.

It is due to wrestling that people now know and recognise me.

Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.

No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.