20 Quotes by Cus D'Amato

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

A fighter has to know fear.

There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

You got to be smart you got to be clever and not get hit and when your able to do this your a fighter.