Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

They are very light footed in walking and in running, as well the men as the women: so that a woman thinks nothing of running a league or two, as many times we saw them do: and herein they have a very great advantage over us Christians: they swim with an expertness beyond all belief, and the women better than the men

Kane, my gosh, Kane is just incredibly strong.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

Hey I bruise," Hale said. "Also, you are freakishly strong.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And I think your ability to not just mentally and emotionally, but physically be able to say, "We got this. We're going to be OK."

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

That's what sport can do to you: it gives you a lot of heartache and pain, and sometimes the ultimate rewards.

I'm used to throwing my body around. I'm used to taking a punch.

As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

Romeu is a physical and very powerful player.

Tough wrestlers have never been uncommon. Competing and performing through injuries, enduring crazy travel schedules and wrestling with no offseason just lends itself for one to have to be tough to make it long term and with success in sports-entertainment.

There have been other players of a similar build and stature to myself - slim, if you like - who have come here and shown a physical resilience in the way that I hope to as well.

I heard the other day that I'm the skinniest power forward in the league. I might be the skinniest, but I'm damn sure not the weakest.

I feel I'm athletically superior to most of the guys I go against.

The thing about Brock has always been, who can push Brock to a level where you actually get to see the best of Brock Lesnar, because very rarely have people ever gotten a chance to see that. I mean, really, who can keep up with him? This is not wrestling hype: he's a once-in-a-lifetime athlete.

I think Rafael Nadal is pretty spectacular. I have a feeling he might be part animal.

Wrestling is just an extension of who I am.

From a mental standpoint, you can't play this game unless you mentally are clocked in and that's, 'I'm willing to do everything to my body, my mind to put myself so that I can win.'

I know what my body can do.

I think my mental toughness, athleticism, and my physical prowess, I'd be successful if I decided to fight, no matter what.