Quotes About Endurance

Mental and physical preparation is critical in tournament poker events like the WSOP.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

It's difficult to keep going the good results, to feel good every tournament, every year in row.

You cannot just play tournament after tournament like maybe I did when I was 23, 24 years old.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

I'm not at my physical peak, but if I can still beat guys, many of whom were born after I won my first tournament, that's a great accomplishment.

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it.

To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from other tournaments.

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

Some tournaments are played in one day - you might start at nine o'clock in the morning and it won't end till one o'clock the next morning.

I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.

In the past, we won tournaments with lots of fighting and lots of hard running.

Sometimes you go through a few tournaments without having a five-setter.

There can be tournaments that can be elusive no matter how well you play in them, but there's no point in thinking, 'Well, it's just not to be' until it's done and dusted.

Tournaments are won on the last day, not the first.

When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.

Absolutely, in stage races, Froome is better than Eddy Merckx. Maybe he can win five, six Tours de France, but my focus wasn't only on the Tour de France. I was riding all year.

Winning big Tours and stage races is often about pain management.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

I can work 5-10 hrs. straight with no problem, though I do take towards the end of a 6-8 hr. work stint some time out to beat myself severely in the gym with weights/aerobics, including intervals!

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

If I play all the IPL games the whole season, I do get a bit tired towards the end.

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.