Chance Quotes - Page 25

• Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

  Marcus Giles

  Baseball, Fall, Athlete

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• I have dreams inside of me, and I have a chance to make them true.

  Manu Ginobili

  Dream

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• Whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to take the extra base and make them make a play on me. I'm not going to stop looking for the extra base unless the scoreboard tells me.

  Curtis Granderson

  Play, Trying, Scoreboard

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• I always knew I could play, but it wasn't likely to happen in Boston. I'm grateful to the Red Sox for trading me and to the Marlins for giving me the chance.

  Hanley Ramirez

  Grateful, Boston, Play

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• There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

  Jeff Cunningham

  Stars, Team, Player

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• The chance to go to the postseason, it's hard to pass up.

  Derrek Lee

  Postseason, Hard

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• If you keep your team in the game and give them a chance to win each and every start, what could be better than that? That, to me, is my main goal.

  Mark Mulder

  Team, Winning, Games

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• My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

  Rafael Soriano

  Play Hard, Cities, Giving

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• If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.

  Jason Spezza

  Team, Thinking, Guy

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• Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.

  Martin St. Louis

  Player, Needs, Sometimes

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• If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.

  Eric Staal

  Team, Winning, Years

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• Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.

  David Foreman

  Winning, Argument, Like You

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• People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. ... I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.

  Julie Powell

  Believe, People, Generosity

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• People may like what third-party candidates say, because often they are the only ones saying anything, but they usually won't vote for someone who doesn't have a chance. Since third-party candidates are not in the news, they are considered to be not really in the race; and since they are not in the race, this justifies treating them as if they are not news.

  Michael Parenti

  Party, Race, People

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• You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

  Harvey Mackay

  Hands, First Impression, May

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• We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

  Steve Daines

  Coffee, What Matters, Cups

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• You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

  Phil Ivey

  Beats, Advantage, Certain

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• The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

  Dave Barry

  Marine, Two, Leader

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

  Tim McGraw

  Dying, Like You, Someday

  Song: Live Like You Were Dying, 2004

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• When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.

  Ice T

  Rap, Hard Work, Play Hard

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• Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.

  John Cheever

  Lying, Hands, Feelings

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• I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Grateful, Different, Another Chance

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

  E. B. White

  Doe, Streams, Wells

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

  Greyson Chance

  Gold

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• We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Existence, Living Things, Improbable

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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