Jens Voigt Quotes

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

The key to doing 8 shows a week is endurance, stamina.

In order for me to perform the best I can out on the field, I have to fuel my body with the proper nutrients to be able to do all the running. I'm running four or five miles every game, so it's a lot. Even at halftime, I take electrolytes and have half a peanut-butter-and-jelly or whatever is sitting there just to keep my engine running.

We run around onstage constantly for about an hour and 45 minutes, and we know what that can do. You just feel great at the end of the night and when you wake up in the morning.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

I want to be undefeated for a while and end my career as one of the greatest of all-time.

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

Everybody is pretty good in the first quarter. Second quarter, you have a little bump or two on you coming into the half. By the time the third quarter comes around, you're tired, you're laboring. When you come to the fourth quarter, it calls on your character.

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.