Chris Hogan Quotes

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Nothing is guaranteed.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

One of the things I've said to teams and players from time to time - especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando - is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it's tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

Nothing is ever certain in football.

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

In the marathon anything can happen.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.