Quotes About Challenges

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

I don't know anybody that is like super close friends but also competing for the same medal. That would be kinda odd.

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

I've had such an odd career.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

Over last 30 odd years, Kashmir has seen many highs and lows when looked at from the perspective of the security scenario, infiltrations and militancy on the ground.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.

I hated going to school, and I think a huge part of that was because of the racism that I experienced growing up there. From that, I sort of developed this social anxiety that I only feel when Im in Australia, which is odd.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

I've been defying the odds my entire life.

My story was not a football story. My story was more about going against the odds of what life was handing me.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

The odds are so against me, one mom and eight kids.

I like to think I defied the odds my entire life, definitely my entire athletic career.