Quotes About Endurance

I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.

I was one of those that didn't so much go to the discos or the clubs to drink. I went with a towel around my neck. I was ready to sweat!

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

I'm not someone who throws the towel in, although I think there are many times when I could have and should have thrown the towel in, and nobody would have thought any worse of me.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

The corner is there to help you clean your cuts up and put your Vaseline on, not to throw in the towel.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

I think a lot of people, when you go through struggles and difficult times, that people throw in the towel a little too easy. And I think that any relationship - whether it's marriage or family, it doesn't matter - it's you truly do have to take care of it and nurture and really work hard at relationships.

If the going gets tough, you stay in there and take your beating like a man. That's what we sign up for, and that's all I meant when I said my corner don't throw in towels.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

I track some long hours.

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.

I think that was the scariest part about bobsled, is when you just don't know what's happening, you don't know where you are on the track, you don't know when it's going to be over, and you don't know what it's supposed to feel like.

After my first track event, sports became my life.

I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.