Quotes About Courage

A true champion walks off with his head high.

Our great state is filled with heroes from all walks of life who work on the front lines to keep our neighborhoods safe and respond to a crisis at the drop of the hat.

Superman walks around with an 'S' on his chest. I walk around with a 'P' on my chest, and that P stands for Passion.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

When my back's against the wall, I need to rise to the occasion.

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

Perhaps a young boy or girl, after watching my video, can go, 'Maybe I don't have to be embarrassed. Maybe I can come out at school, maybe I can tell my best friend... and maybe I don't have to be afraid anymore.'

I married my best friend when I was 23, but when I realized I wanted to move to L.A. to follow my dreams, we separated and eventually divorced.

Bet on yourself and be... more than.

I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.

If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.

I'm just going to bet on myself. I've been doing that my whole life.

I needed to bet on myself. And if you're willing to bet on yourself then sometimes it works out and if you believe in yourself and your abilities that will be the case.

Everywhere I've been I've bet on myself.

Like I've said, you've got to bet on yourself sometimes... I bet on myself and it worked.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

Doubt can be good because it means you want to improve: you want to be a better person, a better player. But it's also good not to have too many doubts on the court.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'