Quotes About Endurance

I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer.

Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.

Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I can't keep playing 10-11 months a year and keep being sharp after 15 years of international cricket.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

My goal every year is to come in and be consistent. It doesn't matter if it's the first game of the year or it's the last game of the year.

It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.

There's a cumulative effort within the course of a game, a series, and a season, too, where you see so many pitches and have so many at-bats that you can wear down an opponent. Once you develop that reputation as a club, year after year, players come in, and they tend to fit in with that profile.

About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.

I've won every single event there is to win as a wrestler, and I still continue to come back every single year. The hard part for me is, 'OK, how long can you do this?'

I've always admired guys who can go hard from the opening series, right through crunch time. It tells me they probably work hard all year long, building strength and endurance.

I was out here at East Lake, on a property I had never seen, and I was just like a kid at Disneyland walking around. There was only 30 guys. Thinking about how this is the big goal everyone is looking forward to at the end of the year and I'm fortunate enough to make it.

That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.

Wrestling toughest sport. We never take day off. We never have the offseason like the hockey or the football. We work year-round, and we never complain because you fight to be with biggest company in the world and you never ask for the time to rest.

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

I train year-round.

Hockey is a year-round job.