Steve Yzerman Quotes

It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

If I'm going for a shot, then I've just resolved to go for it and not think too much about it.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

We will not know unless we begin.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

If it's truly a passion, and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.

It's a kind of limbo, knowing what you want but not being quite sure how to go about doing it.