In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
There's no time for being babies or being scared. If you're scared, go to church.
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.
I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.
The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.
How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.
Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over.
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
We have to manage the dreams and the fears.
There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.
The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.
