Stanley Hoffmann Quotes

It's a kind of Russian roulette.

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

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

In some ways, trying to win cups is more fraught than trying to win the league, as one really bad night and everything comes crashing down.

What is life, but one long risk?

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

Any film you make is a crap shoot.

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.