Quotes About Chance

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

I'd like to thank the chairman, Dave Whelan, and all of the staff at Wigan for giving me the chance to play in the Premier League.

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.

Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

I am the type of person who relishes the chance to stand up and perform under pressure. I have had to do that my whole career.

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.

Going through your reads, there is always an answer. And if you consistently, from a mental standpoint as a quarterback, go through your reads, you always give your team a chance to win.

America stands for the land of opportunity.

You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.