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"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."

Barry Sanders, American Athlete

Chance, Enjoyment

"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

Chance, Giving, Now, Talk

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur, French Scientist

Chance, Favors, Mind, Observation

"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

Gordon Parks, American Photographer

Chance, First

"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

Chance,

"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."

Juice Newton, American Musician

Chance, Example, Personality, Sense

"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

Richard Eyre, British Director

Chance, Fantasy, Reality

"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."

George Shearing, British Musician

Chance, Night, Play

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

Chance, Job, Pretty, Sky

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Chance, Fate, Ignorance, Science

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"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."

Leadership

"An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."

Truth

"Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best."

People

"I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching."

Coach

"Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble."

Road

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be."

Will

"The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time."

Time

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

Difference

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"

Chance