Quotes About Courage

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

For some reason surfing... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.

Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

I'm not an adrenaline junkie; I won't jump out of aeroplanes and I'm afraid of horses. I just love surfing.

I've probably had the worst wipeouts in surfing, and I've enjoyed every one of them.

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.

I'm not having plastic surgery.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

I had heart surgery when I was 17.

I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, 'Don't get your bandage dirty. Don't go outside and throw the ball.' But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.

I know why I lost my fight to Ryan Bader. Because I was injured. I needed surgery but I didn't want to back out because I was fighting in Japan.

There was so much pain. Every time I grew, I had to go back in for a surgery. And I remember just being really, really scared but also, like, knowing exactly what to do. Like as a 3-year-old, I knew to crawl on top of the operating table.

I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

Confidence, to me, is just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can go, and you'll always surprise yourself.

When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.

I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I'm not surprised that I tend to go for the dark side. I was a really scared kid, so I think I understand what scares people.

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.