Quotes About Risk

The only gambling I do is on a Saturday afternoon when I might put on two wingers or two strikers.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I'm not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can't make money gambling.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

Athletics is athletics. When you do sport, you are gambling. You run, you win, you lose. It doesn't matter if you are competing or you are not competing.

I'm used to gambling.

Working in Bollywood is like gambling, you cannot plan in advance.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

You always have to play it safe, no matter who you're fighting. I don't fight any easy guys. I haven't maybe ever in the UFC. To me, you've always got to be safe. But I don't want to have my foot on the brake at all. My foot is going to be on the gas, and I'm going to be smart at everything.

Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

To the general public, it's the nature of the sport that it's a car-dominant sport.

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

I'm dangerously generous.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'

If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.