Brad Marchand Quotes

People get so scared to try things.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

I would be very uncomfortable doing a safe part. It would make me think something is wrong.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

I always imitated other people and thought, 'Well, maybe I'll do standup,' but I was too afraid for that.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

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

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I always do something that I've never done before.