Kenneth Kamler Quotes

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

There's always a little fear anytime you're doing something crazy because at any moment you can break a leg, land on your neck, or peel off the bar. Over the years, we've fallen so many times that we've kind of learned how to fall safely. Still, there is always a risk.

I've got two kids and a missus. I don't want problems after boxing. You need to be careful.

It's a dangerous sport - we all know that going in.

I'd love to be on 'Man vs. Wild.'

Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

I learned a lot from more experienced mountaineers, such as Peter Habeler, but by the time I was about 21 I reckoned I had learned all that I needed to make me technically self-sufficient anywhere.

Everything we do in general, there's gonna be a percentage of risk. Me, making my entrance to the ring, there's actually a percentage of risk I'm going to trip and fall and hurt myself. Me, getting up on the apron, there's a percentage of risk.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

Every morning you get up, risk starts.

Safety is always paramount at WWE.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

Better safe than exsanguinated.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.