Quotes About Odds

My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It's a tough life, and you deal with a lot of rejection and unemployment, and if you're lucky to have a career, it's not easy. So you just want to protect your kids from the pain of rejection.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I bet sports all the time and very rarely get in a spot where someone offered me even money on something I'm going to get right five out of six times.

In every fight, I have a spot that I could lose the first round. When do the oddsmakers ever like me? But it's not a math equation, it's a fight.

Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.

I aspire to be a role model for women to pursue their dreams no matter what odds are stacked against them.

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.

In fights when I've had the odds stacked against me, I definitely perform better because it's like a challenge to me - and I always like a challenge.

The odds are stacked heavily against women in politics. They are up against strong, entrenched and largely patriarchal lobbies in political parties.

As an employer, we're not - let's face it: most of us don't employ men as nannies. Most of us don't. Now you can call that sexist; I call that cautious and very sensible when you look at the stats. Your odds are stacked against you if you employ a man.

The American people need hope; they need to know there are Republicans in Congress that are willing to stand up and fight for them, regardless of being in a minority, regardless of having all odds against us, against me, or against anyone in Congress.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.

Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

Probably the most daunting challenge in delivering growth is that if you fail once to deliver it, the odds that you ever will be able to deliver in the future are very low.

To build a House of Jerky is to triumph against the odds, to construct a nitrate-filled monument to possibility and individual perseverance. Dexter Choi was an outlaw. He faced down fate and flopped a full house.

Such she often felt herself--struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: But this is what I see; this is what I see, and so to clasp some miserable remnant of her vision to her breast, which a thousand forces did their best to pluck from her.

How many men in a thousand million, he asked himself, reach Z after all?

opportunity-maximizing and risk-minimizing principles driving the creation and capture of blue oceans, the odds will be lengthened against your blue ocean initiative.

Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.

What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!

Before you were born, and were still too tiny for, the eye to see. You were born a winner, a warrior, your very existence Is proof you defied the odds and won the race for life.