Quotes About Challenge

I believe that if you acheive success, you will also experience failures in life.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

It is impossible to run in the whole day bowling at 90mph. If you can show me someone who does it then fair play. But I've not seen any bowler who bowls 90mph do it for a whole day.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.

Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you're telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

I'm familiar with adversity.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you know the place. But sometimes on the other hand, it can be quite unchallenging.

We want to challenge even the people who are familiar with what we've done in the past.