- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chance Quotes
What opens up when you take one.
This set treats chance as both opportunity and loss, from skipping formal training to sidestep rejection to the freedom found in stepping over a line and taking a real risk. It connects to our Destiny quotes for readers drawn to that bigger-picture theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.
- Disillusionment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work I was doing in the advertising industry. Book publishing offered me the chance to be far more creative.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had more opportunities to play for Canada when I was younger, but pros just never had the chance in those days. It was just set up that way.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing in America led to me getting a chance. Kicking around in the non-leagues I was going nowhere so I'm glad I did it.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teams full of talent and top-flight experience know when to engage a tackle at crucial times, when to compete in an aerial duel or seize on a chance - often resulting in the net rippling.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.
- Shadows
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- Nov 07, 2020