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" As a kid, what brought me in the gym, what got me in there every day was a chance to break your personal best, a chance to be strong; I just really, really dig that. "

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" I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers. "

Tommy Caldwell

Myself

Moment

Free

" Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory days when you get older and drink Bud with the guys from the office. Get it done when you're young, while you have the chance. "

" Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Babies

Hold

You

" Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells. "

" If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person. "

" I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. "

" Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. "

Francesco Guicciardini

Friends

Friendship

Chance

" Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder. "

" I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad. "

" When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!' "

" Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty. "

" A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning. "

" A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. "

" President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation. "

Eliot Spitzer

Fear

Doing The Right Thing

Work

" Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything. "

" Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! "

Davy Crockett

Pig

Through

" Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em. "

" I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. "

" Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. "

" I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver. "

" Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes. "

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

Ray Bradbury

" When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? "

" Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. "

" When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor. "

" There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. "

" The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

American

Life

Game

" With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class. "

" I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really be there every day - to hike up to Vernal Falls or Nevada Falls. It just took me really deep into it. Yosemite claimed me. "

" Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition. "