Quotes About Courage

If there's one thing I've shown, I'm not scared of physicality. I'm not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

I'm really up for the challenge physically to go into sci-fi action, thinking-man's action.

I was with Luke Shaw at Southampton. He's a very strong boy. He's had a horrific leg injury. You don't come back from that without being mentally and physically strong.

I'm not physically intimidated by anyone on this earth.

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

I wanted to show that even if you fail, you have the ability to pick yourself up off the floor and try again. I wanted to show a different side of what a disability looks like to highlight all the invisible ones.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.

I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.