"In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself."

-- Franz Stampfl

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“Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow”

Source : "The Courage to Live Consciously". www.stevepavlina.com. October 27, 2004.
“...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.”
“For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.”
“One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn't respect them, you'd probably give them a wide berth.”
“Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.”
“I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.”
“As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.”

Source : "Vettel win gives Toro Rosso wings" by Neale Graham, www.cnn.com. September 15, 2008.
“Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.”

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