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Originally Posted by Motofool

Ignoring the risks is not the way; you have to know as much as possible about them (including statistics), about crashes, about wounds, about accidents.
That is only the first step to avoid and minimize them during years of motorcycling.

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Some related quotes from Chuck Yeager:

"I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit."

"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."

"Never wait for trouble."

"There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot."

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up."

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."

Read more about this pilot here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager

Mr. Yeager. One of my heros. Amazing guy!