Ryan Hall Quotes

When I'm competing, I need to be strong.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

I'm a strong fellow.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

My father talked about training as being more about the human spirit than just about your muscles.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

I think willpower is very valuable.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

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

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

My sister is strong.

My body is strong, and I have a strong will.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.