Quotes About Chance

I would love to see Bellator come up and offer an opportunity for competition. Then, fighters could negotiate contracts, and they would not be limited to having only one opportunity, one option, where you have to take what's given to you.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.

There are few options that come by you and you get selected for when it comes to making a debut.

I was only looking at a few schools and narrowed it down to the University of Oregon. Having a great choice made me more excited and I knew it would be a great opportunity.

My friend Adam gave me my first chance to play in an organised match, for Steventon, when I was 10. The team were one player short, and I joined in. I had never played before, but I came on and scored a perfect hat-trick: header, left foot, right foot.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Maybe I am not destined to be part of movies. I feel that one needs to be connected in Bollywood, because, for outsiders, if the first film doesn't work, no one gives them a second chance.

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.

The top 100 guys overseas could play in the NBA, right? But a lot of times, it's about that opportunity, about that fit.

The biggest chance to overtake is in the first two laps of a race. Later on will always be more difficult.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though.

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