Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gardenhire

If you're offered a chance to play for your country, do it. That's a proud moment.

If you're in the game you have a better chance of getting a hit.

If you're hitting it out there in the fairway, you've always got a chance to go at the flag for birdie. The wind was playing a little bit, but I still felt the course was there for the taking.

Laurence Maroney

If you're a first-rounder, it's like, why stay? I feel the only thing you can do is hurt your chances next year by getting hurt.

If you're fed up with corruption in Washington and you're concerned about the direction the country is going in, you have the chance to vote for someone who will do something to change that.

If you're coming off the coast, you've got a 90 percent chance of coming through our county.

Rob Lowe

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

Stephen Graham Jones

If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.

If you just have one dual meet and a kid forfeits, it does not make him better. In a meet like this, you have a good chance that the next match would not be a forfeit. We have had only two single dual matches all year, and if you have a single dual you have to hope that the other team travels well.

If you just analyze, historically, the chances of getting two quarters of more than a 5 percent gain in the dollar index, it has happened only two times since the '70s, so it's very rare.

Vinny Testaverde

If you look at our division, it's up for grabs. Right now, even with us at 2-5, we still have a good chance to win it.

David Chang

If you come in and then get released two times, you have a higher chance of dying than if you come in once. If you come back three times and go back out, you have a much, much higher chance of dying.

Ozzie Newsome

If you hit on four of those five, there is a big chance that that player is going to perform well in the National Football League.

If you go over, it's a three-week commitment. You have to go over a week early to have any kind of chance to do well, and then there's a week of the tournament, and a week after to recover.

If you give up after three quarters, you don't have a chance to win.

If you've had an injury and get a chance to be ambulatory, you have a tendency to want to get the most out of life,

Phil Jackson

In this society, we never give people a chance to come back to grace.

In the Statue of Liberty, we see a symbol that all are welcome and have a fair chance to succeed. In New York, our two torches can come together a place to compete and to dream.

In the spring, it's a chance to experiment, to use a different system. You don't have to be concerned with wins and losses.

Giancarlo Fisichella

In the winter, I said I wanted to go for the championship and these races have shown that I have the chance to do well at every circuit and to fight for the title.

In the first half, they were quicker to every loose ball. They just outworked us. We dug ourselves such a big hole, but we gave ourselves a great chance to win. But it took so much (effort) just to get back in the game.

In the end, I'm happy. If I had made the putts I had over the first two days I feel I could have won but I never felt comfortable with the putter. And when Sergio had the chance he took control and you can't fault him for that.

Louis Pasteur

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fall I didn't see any chance of him playing.

In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure; it is the Path of Love.

Instead of trying to be too fancy, we need to shoot the puck more, ... At least when you do that, you've got a chance for a rebound and then something good might happen.

Instead of slowly leaking it out and giving a few people a chance to sell, and then the stock drops by few points, it ends up being a bombshell,

David Berg

In South Texas, there's a large chance that Merck is going to get hit and hit hard.

Instead of all our eggs and 10 years of work in one basket, we have a second vehicle and a much higher chance of success.

In recent years, whenever there has been a crisis in the oil market, it has worked itself out pretty rapidly, and I think chances are this one will too -- probably within 30 days.

In my opinion, Aberdeen would give the team the strongest chance of succeeding.

Jim Tressel

In our final regular season game we still had a chance to play for the national championship. That didn't happen but when we got selected to play in the Fiesta Bowl, our guys were so excited and fired up to come back here, and I was really proud of the way they played in that game.

Rubin Carter

In our recruiting, we were able to establish and in some cases, re-establish contact with high schools around the state and area. We had a chance to evaluate a lot of good, first-rate talent and we are about 90 percent complete with our signing, despite getting such a late start.