Terry Funk Quotes

I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

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.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.

People are always asking me - because of my family - if I ever feel pressure or feel like I have something to live up to. And having that in the back of my head, I've just learned to be really brave even in the face of feeling ill-prepared.

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn't let that fear dull your desire to win.

A Herd of Turtles' is the only song on 'Behold Electric Guitar' that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I am reciting a poem. My poem is about overcoming challenges.

Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.

No one understands what it's like to walk in the shadow of a famous father, let alone Ric Flair, in the wrestling industry.

My dad wrestled The Rock, and I heard the people screaming and saw just how much they loved seeing my dad perform. It gave me chills.

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

I've come back from losses and won world titles.

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.

We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion.

Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.