Quotes About Courage

A lot of people are afraid to use their platforms because they don't want to lose anything they have - and that's OK. We don't all have to be activists, but I choose to do it because, really, what's the worst that could happen?

Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.

My grandfather built a basketball court for me when I was 3 years old as a Christmas present, and I would go back there every day all day and just play basketball.

I'm not trying to be dirty. I'm out there to play basketball and not fight. But if it comes to the situation, one thing, know this, I'm never going to back down from anybody.

I never wanted to be a cheerleader; I wanted to play football.

I'm going out there, and I'm going to play football how I know to play football.

You have to admit, yes you play football, but at the same time you must not forget you are a defender and have to fight. Put your face in where it hurts.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

I love to play football. Why would I run away from playing football?

I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.

I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.

He played football too long without a helmet.

You want the players in the locker room to know you as that kid that fights 'til the end, has that never-say-die attitude.

I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like 'The Little Train That Could,' which is about the importance of not giving up, and 'Little Toot,' about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.