Quotes About Uncertainty

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

I didn't know what was going through my mind.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a difficult game, most folk play it instinctively.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?