Hello Monty.
I don't admire all that many people, really. The ones I do admire, I don't admire for intelligence, or erudition, or wordplay. I admire them for balls-out manliness.

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

The above are from Teddy Roosevelt, a man who rode a moose across a river and delivered a speech with an untreated gunshot wound in his chest.
( Kroney, Tue 3 Jul 2012, 9:54, Reply)