Quotes About Risk

When you go to club racing in Denmark, people spend money to buy a race car and go and race, and many don't actually really have the money, but they spend it anyway because they love it and that's why I like those kind of things.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.

When I was in motor racing, I had taken the decision to risk my life. But when you run an airline, and more than 200 people want to go from A to B - and they don't arrive - that's a different responsibility.

Racing amuses me.

The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

This is motor racing, and things can change pretty quickly.

Racing's my life.

Running an airline is the most difficult job in the world. Racing was more dangerous for my life.

I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.

There's no more expensive sport than racing bloody motorbikes.

Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

Short-circuit racing is full of health and safety, but the reason I ride a motorbike is because of the danger, and there is no place more dangerous than the TT.

Lots of things can happen when there's really hard racing and contact going on.

Mistakes happen in racing.

Luck is just a stupid word in racing.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.