Athletic Endurance Quotes

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

I'm all for players extending their careers, and I'm all for trying to be as healthy as possible for the playoff run.

Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.

I'm so blessed to have a chance to play 15 years in one spot. I know my position is different than most. But even in my position, guys that have played it this long, have probably already been with two or three different teams.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

I spent two great seasons playing in the Russian championship. I could have stayed there, but I went to the Premier League, which is much more competitive and requires much greater levels of fitness.

I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.

When I play on grass, my body doesn't ache. It can get sore, but it doesn't pulse, and my legs don't ache. When I play on turf, my legs can pulse and ache for up to 24 hours, and it could take 3-5 days to recover, whereas grass, after 24 hours, I'm ready to play again.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy.

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

The 1500 m. record was considered impossible to break.

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with the game.

I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you're young, you can't play enough.

You can't just be anyone who is off the streets and come do what we do. You have to train, and there has to be something within you. You have to have athletic ability... What we do is 100 percent athletic. I feel like it's one of the top athletic programs out there when you consider professional sports.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

You play 162 days, and you play every day, or you try to play every day, and it's going to take a toll on your body. But that's what we're out here for. We're out here to play.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

I knew I could hang on in the NBA, but I wasn't going to play.