Quotes About Outcome

Sometimes you're going to win close fights, and that's the way it is.

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

Sometimes it's kind of strange, and it's definitely something I have to work on in the future, but when I'm big favourite in fights, it's almost like I try too hard and try to force things to happen. That always seems to take a bad turn and makes my performance look bad, even if I win.

Fights are fights. It's a cliche, but it's true, you can never know how they'll go down for sure until you do it.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

If you worry about what's going to end up in the final cut, it's like you're thinking about the endgame.

In a final, anything is possible.

In a final, it's winning that counts, it's not the style of play that people remember.

In the finals, anything can happen.

It's very strange, it's absolutely extraordinary to get to four finals and not win one of them.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

When you go to a shooting competition, you don't know what medal you're going to finish with.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

I think that it's very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the president or try to influence the outcome.

My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.

These close losses, when they stack up, two, three, four, five in a row, they change the tenor of a season.

All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.