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• Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

  Evander Holyfield

  Dance, Two, Numbers

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• Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

  William Raspberry

  Real, Self Worth, Excellence

  William Raspberry (1991). “Looking Backward at Us”

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• Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

  David Eddings

  Believe, Knitting, Soul

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• We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Fun, Giving

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• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Giving, Competition, Outcomes

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• I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

  Ron Fournier

  Moving, Reading, Writing

  "Ron Fournier to step down at National Journal" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

  Hale Irwin

  Running, Giving, Guy

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• In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Athlete, Thinking, Careers

  "Paula Radcliffe steps up anti-drug focus ahead of tilt at Olympic gold" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Albums, Way

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• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Best Love, Winning, Insane

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• When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Mean, Feelings

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• Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

  Mike Tyson

  Discipline, Guy, One Day

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• Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

  Roger Corman

  Giving, Directors, Film

  Roger Corman, J. Philip Di Franco, Karyn G. Browne (1979). “The Movie World of Roger Corman”, Chelsea House

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• I'm gathering Kylie thinks that all it takes to capture an image is to point and shoot. That's what everyone thinks. But there's a lot more to it. It's taken me years to frame things correctly. People assume you can't take good pictures on an iPhone, but they're wrong. Some of my best shots are on the phone.They're raw and simple, and most of the time no one knows you're taking a picture. It's much better than the thousand-dollar Nikon my dad got me for Christmas. I don't think I've used it in months.

  Valerie Thomas

  Dad, Taken, Simple

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.150, Egmont UK

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• They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

  John Marsden

  Dog, Teenager, Sleep

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.

  Alex Riley

  Thinking, Hair, Doors

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• If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Couple, Moving, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future.

  George Brandis

  Government, Would Be, Coal

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I skated like it's a sport, went for everthing and just gave it my best shot. It turned out freat. I had nothing to lose. You might be the best in your heart, but not in other people's sight.

  Michelle Kwan

  Sports, Heart, Sight

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• For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Years, Play

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• Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Jewels, Wind

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

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• I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.

  Bob Weir

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice.

  David Bayles

  Giving, Choices, Comforting

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• Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my first major senior competition and to go out there in front of such a huge crowd was terrifying at the time, but I've had so many senior internationals since then, I feel that this experience has given me the confidence to give it the best shot that I can.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Senior, Commonwealth Games, Giving

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016 and he took his best shot at having a moment.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Games, Momentum, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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