Quotes About Odds

I knew my chances of playing beyond college were extremely slim. You just don't see too many 5-foot-10 quarterbacks out there.

'Game of Thrones' is so unique, and the odds that any of us involved will be in another show like it are very slim, so I'm enjoying the ride.

there was a word for a triumph over impossible odds: a miracle.

Teela turned to Severn. I'm having trouble remembering why I haven't strangled her yet. Severn shrugged. I have that problem myself some days. At the moment, though, the only betting pool in the office seems to be on the Sergeant. Ha-ha. Kaylin said with a distinct lack of cheer. And then, because she was a fiefling, What odds? He cuffed the top of her head.

There is a saying among women scientists who attend highly specialized engineering universities, where the girl-to-guy ratio is decidedly in their favor: "The odds are good, but the goods are odd.")

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

Odds of a worm migration coming this way—about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help—about the same. Sleep well, young friends.

To overcome the drag of expenses and taxes, an actively managed fund would have to outperform the market by 4.3 percentage points per year just to break even with index funds.* The odds that you can find an actively managed mutual fund that will perform that much better than an index fund are virtually zero.

We shouldn't have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don't. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time out because now and then we get exactly what we want.

I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference

It was one of those days when it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but a heap of six to four against.

May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you'll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now.

Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker's dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren't in our favor. "Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar," I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. "That's a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.

You call that evening the odds? You demolished them. Demolished. He liked that. I left you one. I noticed. I promised to share, he told her. Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

I made the decision I will back Mr. Trump, it's not very complicated. I don't pussyfoot around playing the odds.

If we are to live,' Rake went on, 'we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail – should we fall – we will know that we have lived.' Endest

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too over- whelming, for even should we fail – should we fall – we will know that we have lived.' Anomander

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.