Johnny Giles Quotes

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

You don't win a fight by the size and the weight.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.