James Spithill Quotes

There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

The bigger the bet, the better I played.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

I take a lot of risks in the ring.

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

If you're playing the best of 19, and it's 7-7 and there's only five frames left, you tend to take a few more chances.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.

I do wonder whether the bigger the game is, the more the risks that David Luiz decides to take.

If I go gambling the slots, some of my friends will come with me and play along with me. It's not like I'm starting out with $500 a pull or $1,000 a pull. I go in there and play $25, and if I win, I play $100s.

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

That's probably one of the most challenging things about our sport is walking the line between doing the tricks that you know how to do that are safe and pushing yourself.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.