Terry Fox Quotes

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

Even in high school, when I had injuries, I tried to play with them. When I shouldn't have worked out, I worked out.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

ignore the pain, play through it.

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.

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

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

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.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say... "I don't care what happens"

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Perseverance is always the way to go. You have to stay mentally prepared. You have to make sure you have some self discipline in order to recover from injuries.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.