Brad Rutter Quotes

I'm biased, but I think 'Jeopardy!' is the best game around, and getting more eyeballs on it is great in my book.

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

It doesn't matter how smart you are; to audition for 'Jeopardy,' you just have to luck out and know what they're asking you that day.

I'm always really confident when I play 'Jeopardy.'

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

You can't predict anything in football, particularly in the World Cup.

We're quite fortunate on 'The Chase,' we get to sit very still and you can concentrate on one thing at one time - the questions.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

Jeopardy' is an institution, and people know what to expect from it and what the game's about.

You wouldn't think it would make a ton of sense, but I've been on Jeopardy! for over 20 years now, so it's kind of like going home.

I play along with 'Pointless' and I love 'The Chase.' I'm not bad either - geography, biology and history are my strong points.

On 'The Chase,' I don't know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.