Bill Mauldin Quotes

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Life is a school of probability

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.