Politics & Power Quote by Joaquin Andujar

America, in Joaquin Andujar's telling, isn’t a creed or a slogan. It’s a shrug with muscle. "You never know" works because it compresses the country’s favorite contradiction into four casual words: optimism that refuses to make promises. Coming from a pro athlete who lived by streaks, slumps, bad hops, and sudden hot hands, it’s less philosophical than practical. Baseball teaches you that certainty is a scam; the next pitch can embarrass you or redeem you, sometimes in the same inning.

The intent feels like a translation job. Immigrants and outsiders often notice what locals wallpaper over: the U.S. sells itself as destiny, but it actually runs on contingency. "You never know" is the survival phrase for a place where a phone call changes your life, where the ladder exists but the rungs are uneven, where luck masquerades as merit and merit still needs luck. Andujar’s line catches that without preaching. It’s not "anything is possible" (too shiny) or "the system is rigged" (too rigid). It’s the in-between truth: chaos with a chance.

The subtext is also a wink at American storytelling. The nation loves the underdog narrative precisely because it’s statistical noise turned into moral fable. In sports and in life, the promise isn’t fairness; it’s volatility. "You never know" is hope that keeps its hands in its pockets, refusing to get sentimental while still leaving the door cracked open.