John Dryden Quotes

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

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

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

I have the strength to endure it all.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

Heart power is stronger than horsepower.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I want to test my will.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.

While I can fight, I will fight. When I can't walk straight or my hands are knackered, then you've got to turn it in.

Give me 30 minutes rest, little drink of water. Give me 30 minutes, and I can fight with anybody.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?