Robert Redford Quotes

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am mentally strong.

Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

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.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

I want to test my will.

When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.

The important thing is to stay very strong with my natural game.

Inner strength is very important.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

Being mentally strong is something I've always been very good at and sometimes you just have to dig a bit deeper.

You test yourself. That's what real fighters do.

Sometimes, I have to beat myself first in order to beat the other guy. And that sucks. I'm not gonna lie. But that's me.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.