Unlikely Success Quotes

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.

If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

It's so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

I never thought that I would ever actually get to make films. Being from Greece, it wasn't really a reality.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.