Quotes About Courage

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

Blame is the cowards way out.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

One shouldn't be afraid to lose; this is sport. One day you win; another day you lose. Of course, everyone wants to be the best. This is normal. This is what sport is about. This is why I love it.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

A winner never whines.

In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.

More than just a big adrenalin rush, it's more like, 'let's explore what's possible in our sport'.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.