Jamal Lewis Quotes

I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.