You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.....The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it, you must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

*snagged this from DD's blog.  ♥ it.  It pretty much sums up dealing with life and sport in a nutshell*