Athletic Stamina Quotes

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.

I guess the decathlon's never an easy walkthrough.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

Everybody is pretty good in the first quarter. Second quarter, you have a little bump or two on you coming into the half. By the time the third quarter comes around, you're tired, you're laboring. When you come to the fourth quarter, it calls on your character.

Being a two-way player that's consistently transitioning from offense to defense, it's imperative I fuel my body with an all-natural source of performance energy like Glukos that keeps my energy levels high.

It is impossible to play 60 games all season and be in good form all the time.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

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.

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I could have gone out and thrown another 20-25 pitches.

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!

To play this position you have to have durability.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.

It is not easy to play two games, travel, and keep the same performance in 48 hours.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.