Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Centre-backs usually get criticised for clearing the ball long, but it’s easier doing this than risking a pass. If you lose the ball at the back, it’s almost a goal. Most centre-backs don’t risk this kind of game, depending on the holding midfielder in front.

There is a theory that bravery and intrepidness and extreme risk taking are all sorts of madness, and that only one person in 1,000 or 100,000 is born without the normal safety rail of self-preservation, the pressing need to turn around and go home when it’s dark, cold and frightening.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you’re not

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

In a world that’s changing so quickly, you’re guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.