Quotes About Chance

In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one's future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored.

I think probably Wimbledon is my best chance to win a slam.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

If you're not in it you can't win it.

I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win 'em all.

Having the chance to win a gold medal doesn't come around very often.

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.

I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

I always tell young people when I'm trying to encourage them, 'You have certain windows in your life, and you have to take advantage of it. You gotta jump through because they will shut on you.'

If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.

I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts. There are no guarantees, and no one knows where a show is going to go.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.