Quotes About Endurance

The same things we were doing when we were 1-13 were the same things we were doing in 1975. But with much better players.

Traditions are born by the power of an initial thrust that hurls acts and ideas across the centuries

Esperar, dicen. El qué no importa. Por eso de pie es conveniente. En otra posición esperar acorta la esperanza

I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

you have to play it out sometimes.

If weeds could flourish with such vigor, may I could, too.

Charlaine Harris

Eric will survive your absence,(…) but you may not survive your presence.

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long.

I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach

Places like Wrexham and Southport, when there are not that many people there, were tough. You are a young lad, and you're having abuse hurled at you.

I wouldn't say I'm the chunky lad who just goes barge, barge, barge, but being strong is an advantage.

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

I think I laid it all out there for 19 years, and you don't always achieve all the goals that you shoot for.

Milkha Singh is living his last days. An earthen lamp's glow is brightest towards the end, in the same manner I am humbled by the kind of love and respect being showered on me at this age.

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

Athletes like Milkha Singh, Sriram Singh, T.C. Yohannan and I set our records at international meets under stringent conditions, against the stiffest competition.

To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.

You can't learn mental fortitude in a book. Those things are earned, not learned.

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.