Quotes About Courage

I have been part of fights where we have been told, 'You will not win,' and we have won.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

Basically, I guess they just thinking I've been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I've been winning my fights on heart.

In the military, we just don't leave fights.

I feel that's what a real champion needs to be doing, dare to take on the best fights possible.

I'm here to let everyone know I'm taking bigger fights and I'm not afraid on taking the bigger challenges.

I'm a fighter. I don't say no to fights.

I never pull out of the fights.

I've taken fights when others wouldn't.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

I just want to say that we Filipino are strong.

Filipino fighters are very tough, they have great heart every time they step into a ring or a cage.

I want to get something done but I am scared. I said I want to get a filler done. Very little, obviously.

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job.

I got to know myself in the sense that I like to do songs with no filter. I'm not afraid of saying things that are real.

I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.