Quotes About Risk

A ladder match is a career altering match, the physicality of it is second to none.

A dancer's life is hard - it is so physically demanding, and at any moment, you could have an injury that could end your career.

The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

When I was 20, I picked up and left my entire family, who were in Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles on my own.

Look at Willis McGahee. Perfect example. Totally shredded knee. Comes back and gets picked in the first round. It's pretty hard to have a career-ender, unless I have a neck thing. But either way, I know I'm insured.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

In the periods of my career when I stopped passing the ball forward or when I stopped looking for the risky pass that might open up a defence, the consequences were the same. The manager stopped picking me. I got back into the team when I went back to doing it the way he wanted.

You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it's a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you've gotta do to try to get a win.

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

I went to the city, behind my mom's back, and got my belly button pierced.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

There are downsides to a lot of things. There are downsides to flying - people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights? There are downsides to pharma; sometimes they're misused. Do you want to stop using pills?

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.