Quotes About Courage

I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

I don't know how to swim.

I can't swim. I've got better, but I can't go out of my depth. As soon as I smell chlorine my heart starts racing.

Sometimes it's like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, 'Don't die. Keep moving your arms.' It's kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there's a lot of trust afforded.

I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.

I am not a swimmer so a bit of phobia is always there with water stunts.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Open-water swimming scares the hell out of me.

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

I was part of integrating the public swimming pool in the 1960s. A group of us decided one day we were going to go swimming. Nothing happened. No resistance. We just went and jumped in.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

The only way you can get a hit is if you take a swing.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

I was probably about 13 or 14. I got pulled from a rope swing and some boy kicked me in the head and fractured my skull. It was a horrible time.

The more you stick your neck out, the more people are going to take a swing at you when things go bad.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.