Isa Guha Quotes

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

I need to be able to face things.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

Sometimes the future that you imagined to be the most dreadful, turns out to be the future that compels you to reach down very deeply into your being to uncover reservoirs of strength and perserverance that you had no idea were there.

I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.

I'm a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why - when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult - we wonder why we cower and we run away.

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.

I think if you think so much, you simply cannot bat.

The minute I think 'Oh God, I don't want to do this because I'm scared,' is the moment I have to do something, whatever it is.

You have to take the rough with the smooth - that's what ski-jumping is all about. You always expect the worst.

I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

I am a big fan of Independiente and I played in their youth systems before being released for being too small, so I went to work with my father as a builder. This helped me understand a lot of things about life; it made me mentally very strong and it also pushed me to go and play for another team.

It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight - and I've fought every time.

The crowd could be tough to deal with at times, but I learned to use them and the way they behaved towards me as strong motivation.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

The difference between people who succeed and people who fail, I think in many cases it’s not fear. Everyone experiences fear. The difference is what do you do with your fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you? And I think that is actually what distinguishes very successful people from others.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.