Quotes About Challenge

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

I respect Everest very much.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn't go a miss either

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

I could still box your ears.""Nonsense, " he scoffed. "You couldn't reach that high.

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.

He smiled. "You didn't think we were going to follow orders from a psychopath and run scared, did you?

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.