I remember offering en- couraging words to Grete when she men- tioned this was her first marathon as I checked her bag with the line that anyone who finishes is a winner.
Summoning courage through words was a Reed songwriting trademark.
But he dies with courage, brilliant words still on his lips.
Later, with two reporters and a visiting former coach sitting on chairs around her bed in her hotel room, the recently married Golden Brosnihan leaned against her husband, Steve, and told her rare tale of courage, a word we too often use tritely in sports.
The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart.
The chapter headings are big words – Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence, Trust, Divinity – not always accurately deployed.
They seemed to find energy in their scorching tea and courage in the words of a song that a woman seated next to Rocio had been composing.
On his wrist, he wears a bracelet with the words "Courage for Chloe," in support of a classmate at Belvidere North who recently suffered severe head injuries in a car accident.
"May they be diverted by the adventures of Lorelei Lee", she wrote, "and take courage from the words of her favourite philosopher: 'Smile, smile, smile.'" But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928); A Girl like I (1966); Kiss Hollywood Goodbye (1974).
A leather lanyard bears a small silver medallion with an engraved butterfly and tiny embedded pink sapphire on one side and the words "courage, hope, strength, promise, cure" on the other.
