Quotes About Courage

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

The great thing about Priest, in all the years that we've been making heavy metal music, is that we've always kind of carried this metal flag, if you will - this beacon of hope that, no matter what you may be going through in life, there's always a sense of overcoming difficulties, a sense of winning, a sense of coming out on top.

Winning or losing elections is not important. What is important is that I have taken the plunge.

Winning gold medals is incredible and obviously it's what I want to do, but there's something so special about having a little girl who has just lost her leg from cancer come up and tell me I'm her hero.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.

If you're not out there taking some risks, if you're just coasting along with your wins, then you're not really trying.

You know when a person goes into the ring to win, or at least not to lose. I mean, when a fighter is ready and goes to fight, than it can be seen by his look. Regardless of whether he gets hit or not, he goes forward, and regardless of whether he wins or loses, he wants to go forward, and it is clear from his burning eyes.

I come from Maceio, where it is very hot all year around. I moved to Florinoples in the south, which is very cold. I passed the tests that were asked of me there, and that got me the move to Germany. I could have stayed in Brazil, but I wanted the challenge.

Texans fear no one.

Texans will not be pushed around.

I didn't get a pilot slot my first time trying. We Texans don't give up easy, and everything we've accomplished is just the beginning.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

My mother was this White woman from Texas, from a racist town raised to believe in the inferiority of others by her community, not necessarily by her parents, but certainly by the community around her. And she fled it.

Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way - if I'm 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 - that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it.

I am lucky to say now that it is not frightening for me, living in L.A., to be gay. Even when I was in Texas, I wasn't afraid. I was kind of out in high school. I just could never decide on what label. I am glad that I am public about it, and I think I should be.

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

I don't know if there's something in the water in Texas, but there's a lot of us really ballsy women that have something to say.

Each day in Texas, heroes risk their lives to protect ours.