Quotes About Risk

The fear for English players has always been that you might risk a place in the national team if you go abroad but now with all the technology we have, and social media, you are able to watch goals and assists every week, which means his performances are just as noticeable as anyone's in the Premier League.

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

You can recover from a concussion in a week. But a knee injury can end your career.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

I was terrified about putting out 'Weekend.'

Who would want one's children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I hope to God my family doesn't buy it. It's noxious poison.

The dose makes the poison.

If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.

I've never been bitten by a shark, though God knows I had to poke a lot of them in the nose.

Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor and do not bet her in a poker hand.

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

It's imperative to save a few chips whenever possible when playing small-ball poker. You never want to risk a high percentage of your chips unless you're dealt a monster hand.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

I just love poker players.

Natalie Dormer