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Odds Quotes

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

George Steinbrenner

Baseball Gambling You Kind Odds

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

Work Logic Security Odds Against

I keep defying the odds, you know.

You Know Odds Keep Defying

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

Theodore Roethke

Soul Madness Odds Nobility

I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors. I'm always so appreciative that this has happened for me - and against all odds - as a middle child from Canada. I'm very grateful.

Grateful Child Me Feel Canada Odds

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Daniel Kahneman

Courage You Know Risk Odds Big

The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

Patricia Clarkson

Women Odds Everyone Star Still Made

I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

Proud Long Overcome Odds Able Fact

I like to be against the odds.

Odds Against Like

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Food Culture You Back Say Odds

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Funny People You Find Write Odds

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life Life Is A You Odds Take Bet

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Courage Face Know Odds Fortitude

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Struggle Man Win Galaxy Odds Where

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

Great Tools Bag You Software Odds

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

Sebastian Thrun

Education People Data Teach Odds

'Game of Thrones' is so unique, and the odds that any of us involved will be in another show like it are very slim, so I'm enjoying the ride.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Ride Game Unique Will Odds Us

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Martin Henderson

Great Challenge New Hollywood Odds

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

Smart People Amazing Doing Odds

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

Science You More Never Odds Against

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Elizabeth Emken

Good Great Ideas Law Know Odds

I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Story Think Feel Lost Fair Odds

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'

Literature Say Odds Tone Things

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

Change Women Now More Need Odds

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