Frank Abagnale Quotes

Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.

I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

I think I play with no fear: I run at players regardless of who they are and try to make a difference.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

I fought Swanson when I was injured and I shouldn't have but I wanted to.

You can't play to not lose.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

I constantly have little panic attacks of wanting to change something on a production level, but I let go.

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

It's in me to get steaming and to think too much, worry too much about the future, the past.

I must admit that I was always scared to venture out on my own because I have an issue of getting bored of things. My attention span is very short. I like to start and give up halfway.

My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.

There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.

I know there are certain times you have to be smart with the football but I'm a gunslinger, I've always been a gunslinger and that's just what I'm gonna do.

Yeah, that's been my style to drive as hard as I can.