Not Afraid Quotes

“in order to become a master of the unorthodox, you need to know the orthodox very well.”
― Daniele Bolelli, Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting

“the enemy that's going to paralyze you with fear is your own sense of self-importance and your excessive ego. The thought of not living up to the image of yourself that you want everyone to see is a source of tremendous anxiety. At”
― Daniele Bolelli, Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting

“it's possible to go through our time on this ball floating in space without realizing that Fear has been pulling our strings all along. Our inner tyrant has made for us most of our choices—even those we were not aware of making. The fucked-up part about it is that Fear makes it easy for us to go along with this. It doesn't hurt us in an obvious way. It numbs us before injecting us with its poison—a slow form of euthanasia that takes a few decades to come to its conclusion. In”
― Daniele Bolelli, Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting

“I am trying to become more than I have been up until now. I don't want to accept my existing limitations as an immutable sentence, or some sort of inevitable destiny. I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of being intimidated by conflict. I am tired of shrinking in the face of hardship. And when a horde of demons will burst out of hell screaming my name, they will not be impressed with how well read I am, or with the fact that I am nice, sweet, and have good manners. The only thing that will matter is whether I can take everything they dish out and have any strength left to laugh in their face. This”
― Daniele Bolelli, Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting

“You are like a cross between Eminem and the Dalai Lama. You can be really nerdy, and all deep and shit, but you are also raw as hell. Eminem without the bitterness. A Dalai Lama you can get drunk with.” Part”
― Daniele Bolelli, Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting