Andy Murray Quotes

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

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.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

History is totally unpredictable.

History throws you what it throws you, and you never know what’s coming.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.