Matt Cassel Quotes

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

There's so much more involved with the game than just sitting there, looking at the numbers and saying, 'OK, these are my percentages, then I'm going to do it this way,' because that one time it doesn't work could cost your team a football game, and that's the thing a head coach has to live with, not the professor.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.