Luck Quotations | Page 6

We had enough to win this year. We needed the White Sox to not hit and we needed some luck ... and we didn't get it.

We haven't had the type of year that we expected. We had some bad luck, but when we had opportunities to close games, we didn't get it done.

We haven't had much luck so far, but we've got time. We played better today (after losing to Switzerland on Thursday), we're getting there.

We haven't had much luck against them in my career here.

We haven't had any luck go our way, but I hope that's going to change. We played really well again tonight. We're awfully proud to get a win.

We haven't gotten any bounces yet. I imagine sooner or later our fortunes are going to change and we're going to get some luck our way but there are only three games left.

We are in luck because we actually incorporate pets into our emergency planning.

Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.

Unfortunately, Sete had a problem, which was bad luck for him because he should have been on the podium. Anyway, this is a good win for me and now I just need one more for the title. But it is not over yet.

We were just lucky for the time being. But we didn't know when our luck was going to run out.

You do have to have some luck out here. I was holding onto my chair when he was bowling, and I almost jumped out of it when I realized I won. It was such a relief.

To go 9-for-9 in my career, there has to be a little luck involved. So I can thank the Lord when I make the save. I know (Kovalev) has great hands, so I just wanted to be as patient as possible on him and wait until the last second to make a play.

We are playing better; we just need a little luck at getting the ball to hit the holes instead of hitting to people. I have told the girls to keep hitting and eventually the ball will drop in for us.

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Wheeler's Luck is strongly promoted as a New Zealand play and in the past that may have been downplayed in the publicity, and that it is now so much a part of the marketing shows we are getting over our cultural cringe factor.

We did what we wanted to do. We had a game plan and we stuck to it. ... A four-point game, that's basically one possession (that makes the difference). We did everything we could do, they've proven that they're the better team. We've got a lot of respect for them and wish them all the luck the rest of the way through the post-season.

When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's attitude -- his utter confidence that he has an advantage of will and luck and guts over the hitter -- is almost as important as his stuff.

We probably played 30 possessions of zone, which is more than we played all year. It gave us a chance to hang in the game because fouls were becoming a factor early. With zone, a little bit of it is luck and you have to hope they miss some shots. We were fortunate that they did with a lot of those possessions.

We got one goal and could have gotten some more, but we did not have any luck hitting the post, ... This may be the game to get the monkey off our back with this stadium.

We're longtime friends, we're golfing buddies. I told him, 'Good luck in retirement. Of all the people I know you deserve it,' and I said, 'I love you' and he said he loved me.

We're not getting any luck. Every game something like that happens.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

We had some lucky breaks and some bad luck.

We had some luck with us tonight, ... We were fortunate to stay in this game. We made a lot of mistakes, obviously, but we learned from them.

This season has gone great, other than two races, ... I got in an accident with Bourdais in Mexico, which put me out of the race, and then I was leading in Toronto and ran out of gas. We had those two races where we had bad luck and Bourdais hasn't had any bad luck at all this season. We just need to try and continue to get top-three finishes at every race and do what we can to catch Bourdais.

We are looking for consistency and effort from our offense to get where we think we should be. Oakdale had some bad luck versus Central and they will be well prepared (tonight).

You lose a couple games and you think it's bad luck and it'll come back, but with such a long losing streak, it made us take a look at everything again and make sure we make the adjustments before the playoffs. I really meant it when I said this will make us a better team.

You look at that and you think it's luck - it's a fluke thing. When you have eight, seven freshman, it takes a long time to click.

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

We dodged a bullet there. We had good luck on our side.

We'd like to go home with a win. All you can do is stay positive. We've got a great group of guys. We've been in every game. We just have to hope our luck changes.

We work on time clock management every day in practice, but tonight, we didn't handle the situation very well. Some of the decisions we made at the end are the same ones that have been hurting us during this stretch of bad luck we're having.

We worked a lot on our passing. Castle Rock played hard and they gave us a tough game, especially in the first half. They are much improved over last year and I wish them luck in their league.

We want to have two major bowl games in town. And it's been the luck of this town that we've had high-scoring games.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Luck never gives; it lends.

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Luck is not a business model.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

I wish you way more than luck.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you --- it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

I'm beginning to think I've got rotten luck with women.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.