Reed Morano Quotes

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

If I missed once, I might never catch up again.

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.

If you keep on pushing someone, eventually you push them too far.

You make mistakes at the results end of football and you can be out on your ear pretty quickly.

What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

I cannot afford to make mistakes.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.