Quotes About Risk

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

You make decisions just crossing the street.

Ocampo is very dangerous because he has nothing to lose. I want a guy who's going to test me so the crowd gets its money's worth.

Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

On 'Takeaway' we wear these little earpieces because the show is live, but if you push them into your ear they go further into your eardrum and really hurt. One woman flung her arms around us and crushed my head so the earpiece went in. I nearly fainted. I lost my vision for a bit.

I've always been curious and taken many risks, but that is quite atypical for a woman. On the other hand, I think that's the only way to grow beyond yourself.

It is the beauty and curse of this industry that you never know what is around the corner.

Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.

It's easy to play it safe, but the reality is that if you want to keep changing the world for customers, which we all want to do, you have to make bets and you have to be willing to fail.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

I'm considered the 'old daddy of adventure.'

If you've got a daft idea, it's probably good to have a go.

I have doubted myself on several Daily Double answers.

Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

I'm not here to take damage. I don't want to not be able to talk. Every single time I fight, I know that... this could be the last time that you're able to do this, the last time you're able to talk.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

Our risk systems and processes - we keep investing and improving them.

We are a very systems- and process- driven business which reports directly to the board, whether it is risk or legal.

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density, the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just because of the increased risk of contagion.