Quotes About Endurance

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

Just when you think you've hit bottom, you realize you're just scratching the surface.

Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

How will you know how strong you are unless your strength is tested?

He's never tired. He's never miserable. When I was young, I was tired and miserable.

I lost my speed in my 20s. I lost my power sometime in my 30s (although I don't know exactly when—I was too fat). What has still remained is stamina and endurance, and a feel for the water.

The goal is just to finish.

Keep going until it seems like a bad idea, then go a little further.

Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)

the failure of hope has a name: it is called suffering.

You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.

Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it`s not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.

The military has a way of ruining all the best recreational activities - scuba, sky diving, camping, hiking - all made much more miserable with a heavy rucksack on your back under arduous conditions.

Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

Almost every Grand Slam, I'm in second week, which is pretty positive for me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.