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" When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal. "

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" As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers. "

Don Yaeger

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" The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! "

" You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. "

" Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. "

" Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things. "

" When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. "

" The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women. "

" Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. "

" You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that. "

" I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end. "

" Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. "

" I love taking chances. "

" More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. "

" It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen. "

" Taking risks gives me energy. "

Jay Chiat

Taking Risks

Chance

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

" True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. "

" Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically. "

" When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening. "

" I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings. "

" Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly. "

" The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick. "

" It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. "

" In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible. "

" It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. "

Richard Pryor

Because

Chance

" All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "

" 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. "

" I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself. "

" I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo. "

" If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance. "