Quotes About Risk

Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.

The knowledge that in a split second that I could be dead almost overwhelms me. But it is through constant exposure to that fear that keeps me alive and lets me do what I love.

We've spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, 'Look, if you were doing a movie musical, and we could pre-record and lip-synch, sure. But live? So if we hit a bad note it's there for posterity? We're not going to go out there without a safety net.' People are scared to death of that.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

Every so often, push your luck.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but it didn't work for the rabbit!

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.