"A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance."

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"The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve."

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"Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance."

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."

"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

"The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve."

"When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before."

"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."

"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."

"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."

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"If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit."

"I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do."

"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late."

"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."

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