Quotes About Risk

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

There are coaches who put more or less players in front of the ball; when you put lots of players ahead of the ball, the risk is magnified. There are coaches that won't contemplate that. I respect that.

More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

It is inconceivable that CNN's morning show or any other show could be anything but horribly boring. Why? Because they won't let anyone take risks.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.

Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.

You can get in and out of credit cards in a hurry. Not so easy to get in and out of mortgages.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

Cop families have guns in their houses. It's a bigger question for mothers. When is the right time to introduce to your children the things that could hurt them? But not having the knowledge could hurt them.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

You have to motivate people to take almost certain failure to get a small amount of success, which has driven our economy forward.

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

Because I don't understand what would be someone's motives to want to go into space, where you're possibly going to die, and to try to meet an entity that may or may not be benevolent or want to kill you.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

I've had motorcycle accidents!

I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.