Pushing the Limits Quotes

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

At the end of my career, am I going to say I did well, but I didn't give it my all? I'd be very, very angry with myself if I didn't give 100 percent. If I gave my all and I got to whatever point in the world, I could look back and at least I say I did the best I could.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.

I give everything when I'm on the pitch. When I'm at the training ground, working in the gym or whatever, I always give everything I've got.

Who would have thought it would be possible to run across Canada on one leg, eh? I wanted to try the impossible and show that it could be done.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.

Sometimes you need to come out of your comfort zone a little bit.

One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

I haven't got years and years left so I want to compete against the best.

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

I think we might be going a bridge too far.

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.