Joe Flacco Quotes

It's a miss and make league. As long as you have that confidence to take that last shot, knowing - I'm pretty sure you can't go home and sleep at night knowing you had the opportunity to take that shot and you shied away from it.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

We've become a country that is often risk averse. That's not the way to succeed.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

I'm not one of the guys that's going to hold back and try to win on points.

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

I don't ever feel cautious about making plays. I tell myself that injuries are more likely to occur if I try to play safe.

For me, I'm still going to shoot the halfcourt shot if I can. I don't worry about my percentages too much. It's about winning games.

I know there are certain times you have to be smart with the football but I'm a gunslinger, I've always been a gunslinger and that's just what I'm gonna do.

As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.

For good or for bad, I'm a risk taker. I like high-stakes, high-reward type situations.

No, I don't think you can ever worry about playing not to get hurt. I think that's when you get hurt.

I have not always been a risk taker.

I never worry about injury. When you go out there, you're playing football. And when you start worrying about those things, that's more when they happen, playing timid or keeping it in the back of your mind.

As a player you can't be too worried if you take a risk and whether it's not going to come off.

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

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

I think confidence plays a massive part. If you go into a game confident, you will try things, and they will come off.

My philosophy is always to play forward because goal is the reason of football.

There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.

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.

I won't be intimidated by any player or team, I think that is fundamental in football if you want to do well.