Quotes About Fear

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. Of course, there are lots of other words he doesn't know either.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.

Cowards were exactly the kind of people you wanted around nuclear technology.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.