Odds Quotes

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I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game.… — Barry Bonds
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds. — Adam Carolla
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism. — Sylvester Stallone
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quoâ€¦ to give a voice to… — Shirley Chisholm
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know… — Douglas Adams
I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds. — Robert A. Heinlein
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is… — Howard Schultz
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain,… — Anthony Storr
For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be… — Eric Schmidt
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and… — Philip Larkin
The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady… — Colin Falconer
The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. — Paul Dickson
Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as… — Julia Serano
It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very… — Ronald Rolheiser
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have… — Richard M. Nixon
The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the… — Cody Lundin
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. — Anne Archer
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines… — Eric Ries
Donâ€™t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live Godâ€™s commandments. At times it may seem like… — David B. Haight

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