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Chance Quotes

"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."

Jose Mourinho, Portuguese Coach

Chance, Want, Will

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"It takes one person to give you a big chance."

Patricia Velasquez, Venezuelan Actress

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"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."

Jan Garbarek, Norwegian Musician

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"Events are not a matter of chance."

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian Leader

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"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."

Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet

Chance, Fact, Nothing, Practice

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"Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles."

Namie Amuro, Japanese Musician

Chance, Now, Project, Variety

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"I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way."

Carly Fiorina, American Businessman

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"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."

Kenny Baker, British Actor

Chance, Holiday

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"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance."

Steve Spurrier, American Coach

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"I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across."

Dana Fox, American Writer

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"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."

Rick Wagoner, American Businessman

Chance, Conversation, First, Manufacturing

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"I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened."

Stacy Keach, American Actor

"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

Chance, Earth, Exploration, Space

"I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better."

Eric Heiden, American Athlete

"I jump at any chance to go back into theater."

Taye Diggs, American Actor

Chance, Theater

"I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance."

Wayne Newton, American Musician

Chance, Choices, Fate

"Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!"

Christine Lahti, American Actress

Chance, Eye, Job, Sense

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

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Chance, Fact, Reading

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

Pauline Kael, American Critic

Chance, Ending, Open, Want

"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."

Vivienne Westwood, English Designer

"I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance."

Greg Lake, British Musician

"Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance."

Arianna Huffington, American Journalist

Chance, Class, Middleclass

"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

"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

"One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian Musician

"I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance."

Wanda Sykes, American Comedian

"No man was ever wise by chance."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

"There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories."

Mac Davis, American Musician

Chance, Memories, Old, Song

"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

Chance, Fight, Opinions

"Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves."

Larry Harvey, American Celebrity

"I never do anything by chance."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

"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."

Brian McKnight, American Musician

Chance, Forget, Will

"Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure."

Joseph Stefano, American Writer

Chance, Cure, Effect, Law

"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."

Constantine Karamanlis, Greek Leader

Chance, Personality, Will

"I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all."

Dwight Gooden, American Athlete

"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

"I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the ."

Rob Mariano, American Celebrity

"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."

Peter Sarsgaard, American Actor

"We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer."

Robbie Keane, Irish Athlete

Chance, Summer, Trying, Will

"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."

Ric Ocasek, American Musician

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Chance, Cheerfulness, End, Man

"I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

Chance, Charity, Golf

"Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve."

Lorrie Fair, American Athlete

Chance, Months, Practice, Soccer

"I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall."

Toby Keith, American Musician

"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve."

Mark Shields, American Journalist

Chance, Vietnam

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

Jimmy Johnson, American Coach

"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."

George Brett, American Athlete

"I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth."

Barry Bostwick, American Actor

Chance, Production

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