George Carlin Quotes

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.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

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

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

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

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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

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.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

I am a great believer in luck.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

So much in politics is luck and timing.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.