Quotes About Endurance

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

I do Bar Method - it's, like, you're there for an hour, and you get everything, and you're done.

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

Michael Jordan was going to do whatever was ever necessary, and certainly I can say without question, he was going to achieve and stop playing whenever he wanted to stop playing.

'Fortitude' is like the world in microcosm. It's like watching America or Russia, only you're isolated. Once you're inside, you can't escape.

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

It's hard to run a mile when you're not a miler and to kick when you've led all the way.

To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.

I started out as someone who could not run a mile straight. I called myself a 'run/walker.'

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.

Sometimes walking to the end of the street with my prosthetics feels like running a mile.

I think I could make a 1,000 mile race. But I would definitely have to take pre-race precautions to make sure I could make it that far.

I can run a good few miles. I box a little.

Running 26 miles is a feat that demands respect, no matter how long it takes.

I've got a lot of miles on my legs.

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.