When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.

- David Walliams

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

- Heather O'Reilly

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

- Henry Rollins

I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.

- Genzebe Dibaba

The DNA showed I have a level of endurance in me which I never really realised, which makes sense.

- Greg Rutherford

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

- Frederick Douglass

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

- Dhani Jones

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

- Dean Karnazes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

- Djuna Barnes

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

- C. J. Mahaney

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

- Clara Hughes

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

- Christopher McDougall

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.

- Casey Neistat

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

- Caitlyn Jenner

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

- Annie Smith Peck

I hate doing Tabatas - you do whatever you want at high intensity for 20 seconds, and then get a 10 second break and you repeat that for 8 minutes. So you can do jumping jacks for 20 seconds, you can do sprints for 20 seconds, etc. It's supposed to help you get your endurance up really fast.

- Ashley Wagner

My school career was absolutely crucial to me. As an endurance athlete, some of the most important years are maybe when you are 16, 17, and 18. For me, getting that right was very important, and my school allowed me to do that.

- Alistair Brownlee

I don't know whether endurance sports attract obsessional people, or training for endurance sports makes people obsessional... it's the chicken and the egg.

- Alistair Brownlee