Quotes About Risk

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

That is why I can never walk away from wrestling because there's this moment - the bell rings and everything slips away. The path, the future. There's nothing but that moment right in front of you where the intensity is high, the risk and reward are high, and you have to enter into a mental state that doesn't allow for hesitation.

I like to slip out in the middle of the night and take my Lamborghini and drive it really fast on the highway.

There's a lot of big fights potentially out there for me, but none of them are possible if I slip up against N'Dam.

When I go out there untethered, the feelings that I slip I die totally overwhelms me. I am after the feeling of total control. I'm after that in all of life, and for now that's how I find it.

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

I might put a couple of quarters in a slot machine, but I don't know how to play roulette.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

I'm a gambler and love slot machines.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

Risk takes on a lot of different forms, be it financial, the draft slot, something physical.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

When you break new grounds and try to do something different, it's always a high. I remember the first time we did a whole song in slow motion with lipsync for 'Geetanjali.' It was not prevalent at that time. We just had a method and we tried to do that. We weren't sure whether it was going to work, but that is the kind of risk you take.

Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

It would feel like a smack in the face to sign with any label outside of Dre's. He took a risk on me, and that means everything.

The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.