Quotes About Chance

I just have to keep working hard and keep pushing for my chance.

Whenever you get a chance, you take it, so I just need to keep my head up, keep working hard every day, so if I get my chance, I'll take it.

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

I was hoping to workout with Kareem on a daily basis. After that first workout, I never got a chance.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

When you're part of a World Cup, it's always now or never.

Would I have preferred not to play in a home World Cup for Brazil, a privilege that most people in this world can only dream of? Not a chance.

A World Cup is always a bit of a watershed for teams, so there will be new faces and players given the chance to perform at a higher level.

My dream is to play with the selecao in the World Cup in Brazil and I will have more chance to realise the dream if I play for a big team.

For Spain, the more I play, the more goals I score, the more chance I have of making the World Cup and starting games.

In the World Cup, you can only play who you are drawn against.

It's an amazing opportunity to be around at the right time and play in a home World Cup.

If you've got an opportunity to improve your squad before a World Cup you must take it.

It's a gift to be offered the opportunity to play the World Cup.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

As long as you are set and in the right position, you give yourself the best opportunity. It's all about the crucial timing of a save, but it's also being in the right position at the right time.

Making a breakthrough at the big clubs, a lot of it is down to luck with your timing.

It's all about timing and taking out big shots at the right time.