Quotes About Risk

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.

Cowards were exactly the kind of people you wanted around nuclear technology.

Não há nada de mais imoral do que roubar sem riscos. É o risco que nos diferencia dos banqueiros e dos seus émulos que praticam o roubo legalizado com a cobertura do governo. Não te inculquei a minha arte para te tornares um ladrão de cinema cuja única preocupação é não desagradar ao seu público.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.