When Messi is playing there are always more chances to win games.
I’m all about second chances.
Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, ‘I’m not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.’ Little did I know, I got front row seats, and next to me was my father.
I don’t want to completely self-sabotage everything that I’ve got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.
If someone does something that makes me mad, well, chances are it’ll probably make other people mad if I do it, too. I like to think, ‘What’s the meanest thing, the rudest thing I can say right now?’ Or how can I completely discredit someone? That’s just my mentality.
I know I have missed some chances, but that’s part of being a striker, and I know it’s part of being a striker that when you don’t score, people talk about it.
I’ve always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, ‘What are the chances of you staining my pans?’ I said, ‘I don’t think I understand the question…’ and she said, ‘When you cook your curries.’
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
Gerard Houllier is a great coach. He made me grow. He gave me chances in big games, which raised my confidence. It opened my eyes to what I could do. It was through him that I managed to trust myself.
I’m not saying I didn’t have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.
When drivers are going at their best, trying their hardest, taking chances and doing amazing things, that’s what fans love.
Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
I’m always playing Madden, Halo, and College Football. If I’m at home, chances are I’m playing one of those three. I’ve had every videogame console since Nintendo.
Create an inspiration board before your trip! If you’re like me and love photography, food, and great experiences, chances are you have a Pinterest board filled with travel inspo.
After matches, the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that, as a goalkeeper, I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.
What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists – not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
There are many roles and I haven’t had the opportunity to do any of them. I jokingly tell people ‘Sometimes I wonder, is the film industry waiting for me to die and then say it’s sad. He was a good actor. He was underrated and didn’t have enough chances.’
I feel lucky that I got the chances that I did in my career as I am not the most talented actor or the most good looking, as there are better actors than me out there but here I am.
I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.
If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
If you do not take advantage of your chances, you can pay for it.
I like to step outside of what people’s idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances.
I’ve been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they’re giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.
Chances to win games won’t always come in the box, so that’s one thing I’ve got to work on: positioning myself outside the box and, obviously, taking shots.
The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.
Reps once took chances on art, History’s most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.
Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms more chances than they’ve ever been given before, but it’s thanks to people like RuPaul, especially, who set that momentum going.
Having a chance to fight for a title is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I consider myself to be very lucky that I got two chances.
Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think there’s opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension’s concerned.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don’t always come.
I was in art school since I was five years old. I’ve always been to art school. Everything that’s happened to me, nothing’s been planned. I’ve never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
In every sport, at the competitive level, there’s always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting – or the authorities even prosecuting – a pro athlete were practically nil.
Film line is all about chance. I don’t think much, I just like to take chances.
You’re young and you want to play, you have got to make the most of your youth because before you know it, you’re 20, 21 or even 25 if you’re unlucky, and you’re still trialing and hoping to get a chance. And then a lot of people don’t take chances on guys who are a little bit older.
Whoever boards a boat and tries to enter Europe illegally has ruined his chances of gaining asylum in Europe and will be sent back.
I’m at my most comfortable out on the pitch when I’m in front of goal with the ball at my feet. It’s about being used to certain situations, and with time, you will find, chances don’t get snatched at.
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
If you hear something you like, and you’re halfway like the public, chances are they’ll like it too.
Not as many idol stars were acting back then, and I had to suffer a lot of criticisms. However, I still did my best because I did not want to miss the chances that I was given.
If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?
Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.
The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks – or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.
We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said ‘Oklahoma City,’ chances are the next word out of your mouth was ‘bombing.’
I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact – often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.
The state of radio is not great. It’s like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
The year 2015 brought me so many further chances to spread the word about human rights violations in North Korea, from addressing the United Nations to publishing my autobiography.
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That’s my No. 1 priority.
When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
It’s a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn’t fit into this very thin slice of what’s desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they’re doing.
