Ueli Steck Quotes

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

You're confident, you're going to the ring to fight, but there's always that little thing where you're thinking, 'God.' You're nervous. But you have to embrace it and enjoy it.

Fear isn't in my vocabulary in terms of how I approach a fight.

I'm one of those very confident people who just forgets about fear and gives it to somebody else. I get into that ring, and I walk round, I hear my music, and then I start buzzing.

I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.

You can't fight if you're nervous.

Every fight is a fight for my life. And I step in the ring and make sure that I fight with that on the back of my mind.

Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.