Quotes About Risk

I like to play a lot of poker in my off time.

Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.

There were times in school where I would say, 'I should go to class.' But I could make $100 playing online poker if I didn't go.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

The secret behind playing small ball poker isn't so much in the hands you choose to play. It's more about the amount you choose to bet with the hands you end up playing.

But when I will call it a day, I could become a professional poker player.

I'm not a big poker guy, I like to play shnarps.

In the past, I'd felt I didn't want to try something because I might get shot down for it. I'd tried it with England, and the goalkeeper - I think it was against Poland - saved it. This time, it came off.

One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

Man, a polar bear almost grabbed me once.

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

There is no risk-free path for monetary policy.

Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.

To describe 'Mutually Assured Destruction' as an 'insurance policy' would be comical if it wasn't such an appalling concept.

2005 is highly likely to be a more challenging environment, both for policymakers and investors.

There is no gambling like politics.

I loved acting and wanted to be a leading man. But I decided I'd rather be a big fish in the stuntman pond than a little acting fish. I guess I must have made the right decision.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.