Carlton Fisk Quotes

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

When you're performing pain never matters.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

Where the marathon starts is after 30 kilometers. That's where you feel pain everywhere in your body. The muscles are really aching, and only the most prepared and well-organized athlete is going to do well after that.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

Miesha is a great athlete, really tough. I know that.

Physical pain is temporary.

I've done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn't hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.

I remember my very first training session. It was raining hard. It was cold, and I went home. I couldn't train. I stayed for ten minutes then told my dad to take me home.

On a 60-mile trek with a 200-kg. bergen on my back, I felt my ankle break. Some might have given up. I broke my other ankle to even up the pain. And carried on.

I train hard. A lot of people that I train with, they get blown away by how hard I'm able to train.

My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.

Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain't no question about it. Whether it is the shoulder, the back, making the wrong plant when you fall - yeah, you'll feel it. You get right up. You go back to the huddle. You can't show weakness out there. You try not to. You don't want to give a sign.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.