Ron Atkinson Quotes

Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

I've always thought we've done our best work when everything is on the line.

You can't just live cautiously, I think, when you're in a knockout game.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

I always take bold moves. So it can have great return but with great risk.

I'd rather go down with an almighty bang than play it safe.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I expect either total success or total failure. That's my lot in life.

Sometimes you have to take the opportunity when it comes because it might not come again. That's what my thoughts were when I went to Chelsea.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

I knew it was all or nothing.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.