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You can say it’s bad luck, you can see it’s a fluke, but I don’t think we have the luxury to live there, we’ve got to turn over every stone. We have to look at every possible avenue to do the best we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again. That’s what we plan on doing. – Jim Harbaugh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a complete fluke of a discovery, it was an incredibly exciting find, but the fossil is so large it took four of us to carry it up the cliff face. – Neil Davies	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We were literally racing for the win of the race last night, and that was no fluke or joke or setup thing, we were legitimately racing 1-2, which is incredible. Tony has been a hero of mine forever. To share the podium with both of them, I couldn’t have asked for anything to be any more special than that. – Chase Elliott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He's Buster Douglas. It was a fluke win, and I'm going to correct it on Saturday night. – Dustin Poirier	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He’s kind of like a Scherzer type, this guy’s really good, that’s not a fluke by any means. He’s going to be someone to reckon with. He’s the kind of a guy, the guy that we have to learn how to beat in our division, he’s that good. – Joe Maddon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Whatever the underlying genetics are between the two of them is what produced this very unique mutation, now we're looking long term to understand and study what that gene is, are both parents recessive trait holders, is this just a fluke ? – Jordan Patch	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Nobody is surprised to see Hendriks helping out. Everything he does is with a passion and care known well for his thoughtful work off the field as much as his intensity on it. Hendriks reliability in the ninth inning has earned him a solid reputation, too. But you wont hear Hendriks say it. He plans to earn the job again. I dont want to be complacent, he said. Going out there and making sure I put everything on the line every night is a big thing for me. The Oakland closer received a nice raise when he signed a $ 5.3 million, one-year contract last month to avoid salary arbitration. The 31-year-old Hendriks is approaching this season as if he has everything to prove once again. He plans to take the mound each opportunity he gets exhibiting the confidence that he can and will repeat what he did last season. The right-hander, a former opener for the As, went 4-4 with a 1.80 ERA and 25 saves over a career-high 75 appearances spanning 85 innings. I dont want to dwell too much on last year because I dont want to rest on my laurels. I dont want to go out there and be like, Oh, I had my good year, I can ride that wave as long as I can, Hendriks said. I want to go out there and prove that it wasnt a fluke. I want to go out there and prove that no matter what happened last year I still need to win the job this year. I dont want to be gifted anything. I dont want to be given anything, I want to go out there and make sure that in spring training I prove that I want this role, I want this job and Im going to run away with it and prove to everybody why I want it. Hendriks became a key piece for As manager Bob Melvin late in games last season as The Oakland earned the ALs top wild card before losing to Tampa Bay. Considering his topsy-turvy history, Melvin is hardly surprised by Hendriks focus. He got designated for assignment on June 25, 2018 and has been through that almost a half-dozen times now before starting The Oakland 7-2 wild-card loss at Yankee Stadium just more than three months later. You would expect that from somebody thats been through the trials and tribulations that hes been over his career, so I think it is more about him not relaxing at all, Melvin said. He wants to be pushed, he wants to earn everything that he gets. Hes come a long way. He had as dominant a year really as anybody in baseball. He has learned from other times when he thought things were going smoothly, saying, I dont like feeling like Ive got it in the bag because as soon as I do somethings always going to pop up, Hendriks said. I dealt with certain things very poorly in the past and my mindset to get over that was expect the worst and hope for the best, he said. Expect the worst and if something good happens youre able to handle it, rather than expecting things and if they didnt come to fruition, falling out a rabbit hole and being kind of self-deprecating and all that. Starter Mike Fiers appreciates Hendriks determination and focus to again show why he is fit to be the ninth-inning option. Everyone has their ups and downs, and thats similar to how I am. I dont want to just sit back and be like Listen, Ive got the job. – Starter Mike Fiers	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think some people wanted to try to dismiss what happened here last time as a fluke, but he's still attracting very large crowds. His supporters are very red hot in their support of him. – Grant Woodard	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Hubble tension between the early and late universe may be the most exciting development in cosmology in decades, this mismatch has been growing and has now reached a point that is really impossible to dismiss as a fluke. This disparity could not plausibly occur just by chance. – Adam Riess	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think it's just a fluke situation and I think the person sitting at the front desk did a very good job. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Accredited institutions provide a higher quality of care, this confirms that it’s not a coincidence or fluke. It’s a reality. – Samer Mattar	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
She has the tangible and the intangible, she has the technique, the difficulty level, the artistry she is able to put into routines in these days, she's got the consistency; I think I've only seen her fall once and that was a fluke. – Shannon Miller	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is a wake-up call, people ... think this is a one in a lifetime thing, a one off, a fluke, but it's not. – Mike Flannigan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They weren’t sharks or whales but they were at home in shallow water, it doesn’t seem like it was some kind of fluke or random occurrence that they were there They must have just been at home in these environments, he continued. Maybe they were eating there. Maybe it was a place where there weren’t so many predators so they were a bit safer. Maybe it was a way for them to cool themselves down. We don’t really know. This is a whole new question now that is kind of emerging. – Steve Brusatte	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
At this point we don't know if it's a one-year fluke or something else. – William Mathis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As my wife said, it was just sheer dumb luck, it was a complete fluke, an absolute fluke. – John Alasdair Macdonald	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

You can say it’s bad luck, you can see it’s a fluke, but I don’t think we have the luxury to live there, we’ve got to turn over every stone. We have to look at every possible avenue to do the best we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again. That’s what we plan on doing.

– Jim Harbaugh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a complete fluke of a discovery, it was an incredibly exciting find, but the fossil is so large it took four of us to carry it up the cliff face.

– Neil Davies

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were literally racing for the win of the race last night, and that was no fluke or joke or setup thing, we were legitimately racing 1-2, which is incredible. Tony has been a hero of mine forever. To share the podium with both of them, I couldn’t have asked for anything to be any more special than that.

– Chase Elliott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's Buster Douglas. It was a fluke win, and I'm going to correct it on Saturday night.

– Dustin Poirier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He’s kind of like a Scherzer type, this guy’s really good, that’s not a fluke by any means. He’s going to be someone to reckon with. He’s the kind of a guy, the guy that we have to learn how to beat in our division, he’s that good.

– Joe Maddon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Whatever the underlying genetics are between the two of them is what produced this very unique mutation, now we're looking long term to understand and study what that gene is, are both parents recessive trait holders, is this just a fluke ?

– Jordan Patch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Nobody is surprised to see Hendriks helping out. Everything he does is with a passion and care known well for his thoughtful work off the field as much as his intensity on it. Hendriks reliability in the ninth inning has earned him a solid reputation, too. But you wont hear Hendriks say it. He plans to earn the job again. I dont want to be complacent, he said. Going out there and making sure I put everything on the line every night is a big thing for me. The Oakland closer received a nice raise when he signed a $ 5.3 million, one-year contract last month to avoid salary arbitration. The 31-year-old Hendriks is approaching this season as if he has everything to prove once again. He plans to take the mound each opportunity he gets exhibiting the confidence that he can and will repeat what he did last season. The right-hander, a former opener for the As, went 4-4 with a 1.80 ERA and 25 saves over a career-high 75 appearances spanning 85 innings. I dont want to dwell too much on last year because I dont want to rest on my laurels. I dont want to go out there and be like, Oh, I had my good year, I can ride that wave as long as I can, Hendriks said. I want to go out there and prove that it wasnt a fluke. I want to go out there and prove that no matter what happened last year I still need to win the job this year. I dont want to be gifted anything. I dont want to be given anything, I want to go out there and make sure that in spring training I prove that I want this role, I want this job and Im going to run away with it and prove to everybody why I want it. Hendriks became a key piece for As manager Bob Melvin late in games last season as The Oakland earned the ALs top wild card before losing to Tampa Bay. Considering his topsy-turvy history, Melvin is hardly surprised by Hendriks focus. He got designated for assignment on June 25, 2018 and has been through that almost a half-dozen times now before starting The Oakland 7-2 wild-card loss at Yankee Stadium just more than three months later. You would expect that from somebody thats been through the trials and tribulations that hes been over his career, so I think it is more about him not relaxing at all, Melvin said. He wants to be pushed, he wants to earn everything that he gets. Hes come a long way. He had as dominant a year really as anybody in baseball. He has learned from other times when he thought things were going smoothly, saying, I dont like feeling like Ive got it in the bag because as soon as I do somethings always going to pop up, Hendriks said. I dealt with certain things very poorly in the past and my mindset to get over that was expect the worst and hope for the best, he said. Expect the worst and if something good happens youre able to handle it, rather than expecting things and if they didnt come to fruition, falling out a rabbit hole and being kind of self-deprecating and all that. Starter Mike Fiers appreciates Hendriks determination and focus to again show why he is fit to be the ninth-inning option. Everyone has their ups and downs, and thats similar to how I am. I dont want to just sit back and be like Listen, Ive got the job.

– Starter Mike Fiers

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think some people wanted to try to dismiss what happened here last time as a fluke, but he's still attracting very large crowds. His supporters are very red hot in their support of him.

– Grant Woodard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Hubble tension between the early and late universe may be the most exciting development in cosmology in decades, this mismatch has been growing and has now reached a point that is really impossible to dismiss as a fluke. This disparity could not plausibly occur just by chance.

– Adam Riess

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think it's just a fluke situation and I think the person sitting at the front desk did a very good job.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Accredited institutions provide a higher quality of care, this confirms that it’s not a coincidence or fluke. It’s a reality.

– Samer Mattar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

She has the tangible and the intangible, she has the technique, the difficulty level, the artistry she is able to put into routines in these days, she's got the consistency; I think I've only seen her fall once and that was a fluke.

– Shannon Miller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is a wake-up call, people ... think this is a one in a lifetime thing, a one off, a fluke, but it's not.

– Mike Flannigan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They weren’t sharks or whales but they were at home in shallow water, it doesn’t seem like it was some kind of fluke or random occurrence that they were there They must have just been at home in these environments, he continued. Maybe they were eating there. Maybe it was a place where there weren’t so many predators so they were a bit safer. Maybe it was a way for them to cool themselves down. We don’t really know. This is a whole new question now that is kind of emerging.

– Steve Brusatte

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

At this point we don't know if it's a one-year fluke or something else.

– William Mathis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As my wife said, it was just sheer dumb luck, it was a complete fluke, an absolute fluke.

– John Alasdair Macdonald

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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