5 Quotes by Tim Noakes

Fatigue should no longer be considered a physical event but rather a sensation or emotion.

You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you’re done.

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

In that he didn’t die at the finish line, he could have run faster.

Insulin creates insulin resistance. But insulin resistance also causes high insulin – a classic vicious, or self-reinforcing, cycle. Insulin drives up insulin resistance. This, in turn drives up insulin levels. The cycle keeps going around and around, one element reinforcing the other, until insulin is driven up to extremes.