Quotes About Chance

Coincidence is logical.

I don't believe in coincidence.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.

If something happens for one season, for me, it is a coincidence. Twice, we can start talking about it.

I don't believe in coincidences.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

I thought going to Colorado gave me the best chance to get to the league, and I wanted to play in the Pac-12.

Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.

Every film is a comeback, no matter what I did the last time.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

If you don't have the personality or character to compete and to challenge Manchester United at Old Trafford, or at home, you have less chance to win the match.

I certainly could be wrong, but I don't believe God decides athletic competitions.

Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration - accident. That's part of life. It can happen to anybody.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn't believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby, stopped breathing and turned blue, her mother revived her by spanking her on the bottom. She saw life itself as a gift and saw her own survival as precious and a matter of chance.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.