Quotes About Chance

Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

When plays present themselves, I can't miss 'em. I got to make 'em.

Opportunity makes a thief.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.

'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.