Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Losses don't come much tougher than this one. We outplayed them the whole game, but two mistakes cost us. We had some great scoring chances but we didn't finish.

Some of it is addressed by sheer numbers. If you graduate more doctors, that will up the chances that we will have more here.

She pitched fabulous (Friday night). She did a good job changing speeds. Her fastball inside was working well and keeping people off the plate. And when we had chances to go outside, she made pitches on the outside corner.

She really wants to compete. I would say her chances of competing tomorrow are 90 percent.

She (Kaufman) is coming with more speed, control and picking her pitches better. She is giving her defense chances to help her.

Most people can understand that these chances don't come around very often. To win one, two, three and now maybe four in a row, it says it all.

Mike's pitched very well for us. Their kid pitched very well too. We had a couple chances and couldn't get the big hit. It was just one of those games.

Mike?s in really good shape. I don?t want to sound overconfident, but his chances look really good to three-peat.

Missed opportunities. We had our chances and we didn't execute. We didn't play well today. We missed a lot of signs and the kids took themselves out of a lot of innings. We need to play a complete game and we haven't done that.

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Now we know that it also reduces the long-term chances of dying from the disease.

Neither team had great chances to score. When they had their half chance, they got it done, and when we got our half chance we got it done.

Obviously nothing is 100 percent effective. But we know that doing nothing is 100 percent ineffective. You can try a variety of different devices or electronic monitoring systems, but at the end of the day, if you don't have somebody on the ground who is able to distinguish what is normal and what is out of the ordinary, your chances of defeating those terrorists is pretty slim.

Nobody wants to take their chances with a tough 2-0 17-year-old. You lose to a 17-year-old, it's kind of like degrading to them if they lose to a kid.

Mick McCarthy

Nobody wants to hear it, but I am here now for the third time saying we have played well, we have created chances and we still got beaten.

Chris Rock

Richard Pryor was the Rosa Parks of comedy. He took risks and chances that made it possible for a whole generation of comics to exist. No one ever rocked the mike like Richard Pryor.

People want to see things on tables and hanging up. If things are neatly displayed and easy to see, the chances of selling are much greater.

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.

Dwyane Wade

Second chances hurt us. They got a couple of second chance rebounds on us and that was the difference in us making the plays at the end.

So long as the two sides can have a sober head to face the overall situation and handle the existing problems with a pragmatic attitude, can they seek the opportunities and promote the positive and sound development of the bilateral relations. Otherwise, they will miss the chances or even make historical mistakes.

When you're a major college football coach and your son is a major college football player, the chances of being together for the holidays are slim to none. But we had talked about this happening.

Gary Smith

We had chances early but they scored five minutes into the second half and that just destroyed us.

We had chances early, and we had them late. We played good defense, and we'll be in any game we play.

We had chances at Nos. 3 and 5. We just needed to close out the second set, and we could have gone up 3-2. We would have been one point away. Texas Tech did a great job extending the matches to win.

Dan Campbell

We had chances and didn't put it in play, and I thought we had missed out. But the girls kept hitting it and putting it in play.

Maria Sharapova

When I look back, there were chances I could have taken and didn't. In the second set especially, I didn't have my usual fight to the end. It wasn't any particular point, but a little here and there made a big difference.

When I look at the tape, I would like to think we may have had a few more chances in the game overall. But this is not an easy place to play. We felt we needed to come away with a point or three and we accomplished that.

Steve Sullivan

Maybe we were a little flat. We didn't create enough chances to merit a win. We were never really a threat to win the game.

We were creating chances we just weren't finishing and on the defensive side of things we made a few mistakes that their leading scorer capitalized on.

If we don't get that, our chances of getting beachfront parks in the future is gone.