Quotes About Challenge

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

Some things you can't win, though I don't like to admit it. I'm not used to losing much of anything, whether its a race or a debate, but among the things that I nearly lost are my life, my neck, and my good name, and I've gained a realization: a life of unbroken success is not only impossible, it's probably not even good for you...

I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, as if death was an option.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous.

See this page of paper? It's blank," Scull said. "That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir—this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it's harder than fighting Lee. Why, it's harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention

Dern, I hate cooking with shit. -- Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood

Well, boys, Long Bill said. I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.

Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

Francis Goes to the Army.

though his day-to-day responsibilities had constantly shrunk over the last ten years, life did not seem easier. It just seemed smaller and a good deal more dull.

How about a kiss?" "Are you man enough to try?" she asked.

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.

Ain't this been a hell of a time?

Louis's excitement was growing unbearable. Was this really what he had needed all along? Not the droud and wire, but the risk of his life to prove its value! Louis adjusted his flying belt and dropped over the railing.