Odds Quotes - page 3

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)
If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.
Brett Hoebel
I like to be against the odds.
Barry Bonds
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
Camryn Manheim
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
Deborah Kass
I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.
Darrell Royal
If youre going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like Purple Rain and Thriller and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
Dave Sitek
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
Harold Brodkey
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole
In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
John Corbett
Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds. (Kim Harrison)
It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
Martin Henderson
Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
Mika Brzezinski
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
Patricia Clarkson
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
Paul Taylor
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
Richard Lugar
When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.
Rick Barry
Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.
Robert Winston
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
Rollie Fingers
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. (Stanley Crouch)
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
Tom Osborne
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen.
Tony Goldwyn
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
Walter Becker
The odds against becoming the next Frederick Forsythe are, of course, somewhere between merely exponential and astronomical-incredible. I'll settle for a book-jacket with my name on it.
Tom Clancy