Quotes About Outcome

It's funny that as soon as I retired from international football, Italy won the World Cup.

I hope that my first appearance at a World Cup will be marked with a positive outcome.

As a player, perhaps you have the chance to take part in a World Cup or a European Championship twice or three times in a lifetime. Other competitions, you have another match three days later. Here, it's different: we know we're out if we don't win.

You can't predict anything in football, particularly in the World Cup.

When I think back to the 2006 World Cup on home soil, we came close but nobody really expected us to get very far. We simply lost to a better team and Italy went on to win it.

The player picked as No 23 in the squad will not win the World Cup for you.

If we don't qualify, if we didn't win the Asian Cup, if we went into the last World Cup and you know, we got embarrassed in any way, I would be the man in front of that.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.

Winning the title is an important detail to the story, but how you get there is much more important.

When I was in Spain, I remember United being eight points ahead of City with only six games but they still lost that title. So in the Premier League, anything can happen. You never know because anything can happen whether you are in front or behind the opponent.

It's not my decision, what goes on with who gets a title shot. I mean, some people get their shots in two or three fights. They're pretty lucky. I wish I could be like them.

To be honest, I don't care how it went in.

I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding.

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

There is always a unlucky person behind a lucky person or the lucky person can not be lucky.

I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story that leads to the outcome they want.

Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. Science says that eminent scientists can not destroy the religion because of it is outcome from religious spirit.

By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.

That was what they were so clearly doing here: they were waiting. And not in any suspense, either, not in any anxiety as to the outcome of their vigil. They were waiting with no apparent emotion at all, as one might sit over the course of an evening, watching a candle methodically burn itself into darkness, never less than certain of the outcome, confident that the only thing standing between now and the end of waiting was time itself.

And the more you do to force it in, the less of what you wanted to acquire in the first place remains. The vast majority of acquisitions fail for this reason.

Adherence to checklists implies that there is a definitive process that guarantees a particular outcome, which is never the case. In reality, there are always just three things: a goal, a pile of work, and a bunch of people.

The problem was coherence. We certainly launched many things, but did it add up to making a better product?

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.