Quotes About Challenge

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

It is in he nature of love, and in the nature of art, to be complex, disturbing, taxing.

White gull in the vastness of the waves—ten thousand miles away, who can tame him?

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Once you realize it's a 'them or us' situation, though," Southwick said conversationally, "it's surprising how you see it all in a different light.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself.

when we challenge our assumptions about the world—or even more important, when we realize we're making an assumption that we didn't even know we were making—we may or may not change our views. But even if we don't, the exercise of challenging them should at least force us to notice our own stubbornness, which in turn should give us pause.

Criticizing common sense, it must be said, is a tricky business,

It's all good, man. It's part of the game. I like battle. That's what makes the game fun. You hope that it doesn't turn into physical battle, but at some point in time ...

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

At the very end, somebody took a dump right where I stood in the dugout every day. That was the low point. The grounds crew guy cleaned it up. He said, "Oh, I think it's dog crap." I said, "No it ain't. That's human crap."

It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

A story is the record of how somebody deals with danger.

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.