Quotes About Risk

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's where courage comes in.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

More tough love is needed, of the sort that makes one throw a child in the pool, hoping that she will swim; the sort that makes one get her a car, later in life, after enough practice at the simulator, and cross one's fingers as she attempts to transfer her skills from the lab to the battlefield.

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

Anyone smart enough to accomplish what they have should know better than to risk everything by talking to the vultures in the media.

A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?

El Riesgo Siempre Vive

rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit.

These "wise men" apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)

You had to be careful whenever you entered a new zone or sector. You had to be prepared. But like I said, I didn't have that problem. I was stuck at school.

Also, don't touch anything, and if you can help it, try not to look at anything either—not for longer than a second or two. Otherwise you might trigger some educational minigame or side quest that you'll be forced to complete, and we'll have to go on without you. We don't have time to stop and play Blue's Clues.

because I knew there was a good chance it was going to end up getting me killed. But at this point, I no longer cared.

Through sheer force of will and brainpower, he'd once again turned science fiction into science fact, without much regard for the long-term consequences.

think it could help humanity. But it could also make things even worse. It will all depend on the timing, I think.

A dude just ahead of me in line actually had a top-of-the-line miniature Sinatro OASIS console concealed inside a prosthetic testicle. Talk about balls.

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell." -- Ernest K. Gann