Jerry Jones Quotes

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

Playing it safe isn't fun; you have to take a chance.

You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

If you jump, you best jump far.

If you haven't peed the bed, you haven't taken enough chances.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.