Deandre Ayton Quotes

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

I am scared of nobody.

I don't get intimidated, you know. Because I feel like when you get intimidated, you become nervous, and then you turn to fear.

The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.

I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

I wouldn't want to get in the ring with me, I can promise you that.

I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I'm getting, the more fearless I'm becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you're like that.

I feel like I'm a tough guy.

As you grow older, you want to learn, you want to change, you want to evolve and you don't want to live in fear. Fear is the mind killer.

I don't fear anyone.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.