Cycling Quote by Miguel Indurain

[Scientific testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes, I say, 'Today I can die.'

— Gelindo Bordin

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is…

— Haruki Murakami

I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

— Catherine Martin

I don't look at myself as suffering.

— A. J. Langer

I remember feeling my back break and I really didn't know if I'd ever race again.

— Denny Hamlin

For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing…

— Dathan Ritzenhein

For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next -…

— Yann Martel

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

— Jim Caviezel

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown…

— Ayn Rand

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

— Lance Armstrong

We're all human beings. Experience is experience, let's just be honest. Let's not try and dissect suffering into a race, or whatever you want…

— Idris Elba