Jeff Cooper Quotes

Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.

I'm a big supporter of safety.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

Only the paranoid survive.

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

Only the paranoid survive.

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

At least from my position, I worry about it more when we're rolling because people get comfortable.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

You just always have to protect yourself. Try not to take any unnecessary hits.

You gotta watch everything. You gotta watch how you move, 'cause you a celebrity. You're a target now, so you always gotta do that. Just stay on your tippy toes.

I always try to be safe; even when something looks dangerous, it actually isn't to me.

You don't want to play the whole game careful, but you certainly don't want to play careless.

It is always good to be careful or vigilant.

It's a dangerous world, man. You've gotta keep your eyes and ears peeled and be on the alert all the time.

It's really important to take your own personal safety into your own hands.