Taylor Phinney Quotes

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

A lot of people these days are very much too wrapped up in cotton wool: people aren't pushed to their limits, and that's why we should find out where our limits lie.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

One finds limits by pushing them.

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

The more you go to your limits, the more your limits will expand.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.