Ron Atkinson Quotes

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again. I like a lot of structure and a lot of lines, but then within that I make room for things to happen that you couldn't have predicted.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

One play can change your momentum forever.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind of throw a little curveball in the lyrics or in the arrangement, to kind of give it a little twist to it.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.