Jerry Jones Quotes

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

Go out hard and finish harder.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

Really, the measure of a man is when they're tired and exhausted.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

Obviously, teams start wearing down. But that's kind of when you thrive, when the other team starts to get tired.

You have to have a part of you like that as a bowler - that fire in you to keep going.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.