Quotes About Endurance

I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.

Football is made up of several factors, such as the physical side, which is very important, and the mental side.

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.

Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

Without question, Jerry 'The King' Lawler is my most recognizable partner and my favorite to work with over the years. We endured several things together that reach far beyond merely signing on and subsequently saying 'good night everybody' at the end of the show.

I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.

I work in silence.

Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

The enemy is Resistance.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

The Spartan king Agesilaus was still fighting in armor when he was eighty-two. Picasso was painting past ninety, and Henry Miller was chasing women (I'm sure Picasso was too) at eighty-nine. Once we turn pro, we're like sharks who have tasted blood, or renunciants who have glimpsed the face of God. For us, there is no finish line. No bell ends the bout. Life is the pursuit. Life is the hunt. When our hearts burst... then we'll go out, and no sooner.

Once we turn pro, we're like sharks who have tasted blood, or renunciants who have glimpsed the face of God. For us, there is no finish line. No bell ends the bout. Life is the pursuit. Life is the hunt. When our hearts burst... then we'll go out, and no sooner.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful; honor and recognition in case of success.