Quotes About Endurance

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

Patience may be the toughest thing when you're injured.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldn't let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.

That '05 Ashes and where that then took me personally for the next 12-18 months was the toughest point of my career.

A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

Chudinov is one of the toughest guys I fought. It was only the slump of his shoulders that made me think he's hurt because there's no grimace, or rolling eyes. He was never going down.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

The 2008 season was very long and extremely hard - probably the toughest of my career.

The first round is always the toughest one for me. Being in the final is probably easier. The more sets there are, the better it is for me.

I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

There is no tournament to win for mental health. There are no quarterfinals, or semifinals, or finals.