Quotes about Chance

“I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.”

“I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.”

“Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.”

“How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.”

“Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.”

“I got a chance to host the 'Late Late Show' for two nights before they hired Craig Ferguson. I enjoyed it, but nothing can replace the thrill of calling an NFC championship game or a Super Bowl or a World Series.”

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.”

“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.”

“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”

“I do believe Hong Kong's 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.”

“When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.”

“I'm grateful for the doctors that'll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I'm grateful for the chance to keep being a person.”

“I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.”

“I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.”

“It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.”

“Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA.”

“Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.”

“In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.”

“But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.”

“I want to give myself the best chance possible and set really high standards in everything I do.”

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.”