Satchel Paige Quotes

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

Even if you play, you know, the best player in the world... you have a chance.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

Some you win some you lose.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

To win you have to risk loss.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

You win a few, you lose a few.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.