Ron Livingston Quotes

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

That's one of the things I always tried to do as champ. If you saw me at house shows, I was going to make you think I was going down. If I was wrestling Kane, I could lose. I'm wrestling Batista, I could lose. I'm wrestling Big Show, Undertaker, you name it, I could lose.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

Just because something is not happening to you doesn't mean that it never will.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.