Chance of Success Quotes

I don't think you can predict success, but you get a feeling if something's going to be good or bad.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

I think it's easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.

I spoke with Van Gaal, and he said that I only had a one per cent chance of playing in my position, so I headed to Bayer.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

If I've got a run-out chance to win the game I want to take it.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

It was very spur of the moment. When I heard WWE was having tryouts... I would not let the opportunity pass me by. I hired someone to make my video, and I sent in the video, thinking nothing would come of it.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.

I'm pretty excited when I get a good kick up in the air and our wings start chasing, because I know it's a 50-50. When you kick well and compete well, the odds fall on our side.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.

Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

Everything you're doing is a chance at an opportunity, so why not give it your fullest and try?

Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.

You cannot take all the chances you get.