Aksel Lund Svindal in Blink of an Eye: video

Originally posted By Sean Calvert on 12 December 2013 in Skiing on redbull.com

Watch this amazing footage of Aksel Lund Svindal powering down the slopes at Kvitfjell, Norway. (Click here to watch).

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

~ Debbi Fields

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

~ Bill Cosby

Phys Ed: How to Overcome Fear on the Slopes

By Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times
Originally Published: February 3, 2010

Peter Olenick, a 25-year-old freestyle skier and gold medalist in the Big Air skiing competition at last weekend’s 2010 Winter X Games, vividly recalls the first time he tried the Whiskey Flip, his self-invented marquee trick, a twisty, somersaulting double flip executed 20 feet or so above the halfpipe’s lip. “It was terrifying,” he says. “I didn’t even know if it could be done. But I’d been doing it over and over in my head, so I figured I could make it go right.” Some deep breaths, some mental finger-crossing and “I just kind of hucked it,” he says, landing cleanly, exhilarated. A second attempt was even “scarier. Now my body knew what was happening. But I did it. Fear kind of keeps all of us going.”

Fear may be the signature emotion of the Winter Olympics, prickling the skin hairs and sharpening the senses of all those athletes moving fast over slick, unforgiving surfaces. “Everybody feels fear out there, and I mean everybody,” says Ross Hindman, the founder and program director of the International Snowboard Training Centers in Colorado and California, which specialize in training midlevel and elite snowboarders. Fear affects those of us too who recreationally strap on skis, snowboards, skates or, more rarely, a skin suit in advance of a bobsled run. “The issue is how you deal with fear,” Mr. Hindman says… Click here to read on

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.

~ W. Clement Stone

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

~ Babe Ruth

Speed skating coach portrayed as man prone to verbal and physical violence

By Sean Gordon, The Globe & Mail
Originally Published: Friday, 21 September 2012

All coaches yell.

They scream at a lack of effort, erupt over an egregious mistake, sometimes it’s a calculated outburst (the late Montreal Canadiens coach Pat Burns was a master of contrived rage) but more often it isn’t… Click here to read on

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.

~ Pope John XXIII