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" If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive. "

Tom Landry

Chance

You

Competition

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" No man was ever wise by chance. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wise

Wisdom

Man

" Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance. "

" Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes. "

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

" Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. "

" I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall. "

" Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility. "

" So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. "

Regis Philbin

Chance

Week

" I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard. "

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

" Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. "

" You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. "

" I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not. "

Victor LaValle

Mind

Woman

" You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life. "

Barack Obama

" We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. "

" When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing. "

" It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot. "

" Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me. "

Zig Ziglar

Speak

Chance

" First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. "

" I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale. "

" When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from. "

" Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. "

" When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it. "

" I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out. "

" If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth. "

" I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis. "

" I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. "

" No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. "