Quotes About Risk

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

He played football too long without a helmet.

The bigger the bet, the better I played.

When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.

I don't want to create a too-big-to-fail player.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.

I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

If you're going to perform, you're going to attract criticism. You can't please everyone all the time. You don't know how things are going to come out. But that's part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.

When you're a 20-something-year-old athlete and you're getting a six-figure check every week, you're not thinking about next week. You're not thinking, 'I'm going to be broke,' or 'I'm going to need another job.' But I'll tell you, there are a lot of broke athletes out there - I know plenty - and I didn't want to end up as one.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

I was a diver. Looking back, I realize that putting yourself out there, literally, on the edge of the platform is very similar to doing live TV. It's taking the plunge and knowing, with lots of practice, it'll work out fine.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

We have to get out of the mindset that, 'If I invest $1 in crop insurance, I want to make sure I get a $1.10 or plus out of that.'