If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
I think we stick with what we know.
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.
I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
I've been on the other end of sticky decisions, have been the 'B' side, but I never go in there thinking, 'Is this going to go against me?'
At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls.
If you're too methodical, too fearful, you're not going to win. But the clever thing is to make the calculation correctly about where and when to go over the top. You've got to know when to push it and when to come back.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?
Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.
Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
