Quotes About Endurance

Dancing hurts, like physically is painful, but being the Bachelor is an emotionally - it's a lot of emotional pain.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

The season is long. You go through aches and pains with your brothers. When it's on the line, you just want to give them - you know, you want to perform. You want to give them a shot to win the game.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can't. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

There's nothing 'flash in the pan' about my career. It's been built fan by fan, city by city.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

If you think I'm a walk in the park, come walk in this park and see how easy it is.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

Little injuries are always happening, so you've just got to train through those. You've also got to have the right training partners, people you trust.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

I probably don't look healthy, but I have never got to the stage where I thought I was going to pass out.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure difficult passages.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.