Endurance Athletes

Famous quotes containing the words endurance and/or athletes:

“By your endurance you will gain your souls.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 21:19.

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)