Quotes About Odds

I don't kno az i want tew bet enny money, and giv odds, on the man, who iz alwus anxious tew pray out loud, every chance he kan git.

If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.

I don't think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. I think it's when the company faces adversity of extraordinary proportions, when there's no reason for the company to survive, when you're looking at incredible odds - that's when culture is developed, character is developed.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

Father was bold, and Mother was cautious. They never shouted at each other but argued constantly about strategy, and they taught me very early that before taking big risks, one must carefully figure the odds.

I am incredibly lucky to be alive because one in three people who have strokes don't make it.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.

You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

What's yet in this That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid moe thousand deaths; yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

all the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins.

I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day.

Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds." "Got a plan?" asked Giordino. "I certainly do." Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. "Is it evil, rotten, and sneaky?" Gunn nodded, with an impish grin. "All that, and more."   THE

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.

Bet you ten bucks we make it. What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this. Min? he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it. No bet, she said against his mouth. Your odds are too good. Our odds are too good

Of course I'd be happy to give you my opinion because it increases the odds of me being able to say, I told you so in the future.

Rehabbing any significant injury is a substantial challenge independently; braving the process twice makes for even longer odds.