Luck Quotes

‘I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.’ – Steven Wright

‘I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.’ – Denzel Washington

‘I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.’ – Seneca

‘Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.’ – Ray Kroc

‘You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.’ – Harry Golden

‘I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.’ – Brian Tracy

‘When it comes to luck, you make your own.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.’ – Orson Welles

‘Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.’ – E. B. White

‘Diligence is the mother of good luck.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That’s just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it… that’s excellence.’ – Jay-Z

‘If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.’ – Paul LePage

‘Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Luck is believing you’re lucky.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you’re a pretty decent person you’ll get back what you put in.’ – John Key

‘I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.’ – Eliyahu Goldratt

‘Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.’ – Iain Duncan Smith

‘I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.’ – Dave Thomas

‘Good luck has its storms.’ – George Lucas

‘Bad luck never lost a race.’ – Mark Getty

‘Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.’ – Stefano Gabbana

‘Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.’ – Joseph Heller

‘Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.’ – Serena Williams

‘It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.’ – James Altucher

‘Only bad golfers are lucky. They’re the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.’ – Lee Trevino

‘Luck is the residue of design.’ – Branch Rickey

‘The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.’ – Barbara Sher

‘The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it’s not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it’s not your fault.’ – Werner Herzog

‘The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘There’s really no excuses; you’ve got to make your own luck.’ – Auston Matthews

‘For years, kids have been asking me what’s the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you’re lucky, everything works. I’ve been lucky.’ – Stan Lee

‘A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.’ – James A. Garfield

‘Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.’ – Eubie Blake

‘I don’t believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.’ – Nelly

‘The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.’ – Bret Harte

‘Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.’ – Jimmy Buffett

‘I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.’ – Stephen Leacock

‘The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.’ – William Feather

‘Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.’ – Larry King

‘Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.’ – Earl Wilson

‘Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.’ – Lucille Ball

‘Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.’ – Ed Bradley

‘Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.’ – Preity Zinta

‘Good luck is a residue of preparation.’ – Jack Youngblood

‘You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don’t. I think love is like a lottery.’ – Kylie Minogue

‘Some folk want their luck buttered.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘Luck marches with those who give their very best.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘In the long run, you make your own luck – good, bad, or indifferent.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.’ – Nostradamus

‘A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘I had a vision – and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying, ‘Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.” – Nat Turner

‘I guess if there weren’t luck involved, I’d win ’em all.’ – Phil Hellmuth

‘It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.’ – Channing Pollock

‘There is no such thing as luck. It’s a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.’ – Mario Benedetti

‘The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.’ – Kevin Eubanks

‘Good luck needs no explanation.’ – Shirley Temple

‘I don’t have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.’ – Maryam Mirzakhani

‘Good night, and good luck.’ – Edward R. Murrow

‘At the end of the day, life is a gamble, isn’t it? A lot of it is sheer luck.’ – John Virgo

‘Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.’ – Bill Gates

‘The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.’ – Scott Adams

‘Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.’ – Mark Warner

‘I don’t believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you’re in serious trouble.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.’ – Garrison Keillor

‘Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.’ – Ovid

‘The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.’ – Alfred Hitchcock

‘Luck, that’s when preparation and opportunity meet.’ – Pierre Trudeau

‘Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.’ – James Cash Penney

‘People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.’ – Frank Sinatra

‘Care and diligence bring luck.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘Every day a piano doesn’t fall on my head is good luck.’ – Meg Rosoff

‘Good luck trying to cancel me.’ – Logan Paul

‘Few people realize that luck is created.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.’ – John Dewey

‘I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.’ – Howard Schultz

‘Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Going through war and living is a very important process. You realize how vulnerable you are and how lucky you are to be in the right place at the right time. As a matter of fact, I have a history of luck.’ – Carl Reiner

‘I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.’ – Slavoj Zizek

‘I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.’ – Ron Conway

‘The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.’ – Hector Berlioz

‘It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‘I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.’ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.’ – John Kennedy

‘There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.’ – Derek Walcott

‘The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.’ – Emanuel Ax

‘Effective networking isn’t a result of luck – it requires hard work and persistence.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I’ve consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life – and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!’ – Patrick Duffy

‘I don’t mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn’t criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it’s a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.’ – Natalie Portman

‘Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and you wait, confident that you’ve done your groundwork. But a lot of life is luck.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘I saw ‘Joy Luck Club’ when it came out, so that was early mid-’90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness,’ and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.’ – Sandra Oh

‘When you have fast cars and bad luck, it’s a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.’ – Kevin Harvick

‘I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Cocteau’ – Jean Cocteau

‘Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘It sounds strange to say, but someone’s bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.’ – Michy Batshuayi

‘In short, Luck’s always to blame.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned.’ – Frank A. Clark

‘With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.’ – Paul Lauterbur

‘Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘I don’t rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.’ – John Gokongwei

‘I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for ‘Luck.’ I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.’ – Woody Allen

‘Success is always a matter of some luck and timing.’ – Kathleen Kennedy

‘Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn’t be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn’t a life plan.’ – Karen Finerman

‘Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.’ – Suzy Parker

‘The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death’s deserters.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, ‘That’s real work.” – Liam Neeson

‘Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.’ – George Sanders

‘Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.’ – Andrew Yang

‘Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.’ – Olivia De Havilland

‘But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck.’ – Shemar Moore

‘Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.’ – Sisqo

‘I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.’ – Jack Canfield

‘Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.’ – Mary Callahan Erdoes

‘Art depends on luck and talent.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can’t even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming ‘Good Luck Chuck.” – Alexander Ludwig

‘You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.’ – Shahid Khan

‘People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they’re nothing again.’ – Brian Johnson

‘Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.’ – John Travolta

‘It’s amazing because people come up to me and say, ‘Chuck, you’re the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.’ When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.’ – Chuck Norris

‘It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.’ – Steve Jobs

‘So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.’ – Chris LeDoux

‘As a leader, you don’t get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck – or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.’ – John T. Chambers

‘Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.’ – G-Dragon

‘Is there any proof that I’m a bust? All there is proof of is that I have bad luck with injuries.’ – Greg Oden

‘I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.’ – Halle Berry

‘Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.’ – Bob Feller

‘All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I’ve surpassed that.’ – Phil Collins

‘There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is.’ – Kelly Asbury

‘I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.’ – Tim Commerford

‘The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.’ – Nick Cummins

‘Give luck a chance to happen.’ – Tom Kite

‘We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.’ – Christopher Morley

‘My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.’ – A. J. Foyt

‘Our lives are in God’s hands. We have no control. We can’t control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.’ – T. B. Joshua

‘We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It’s not a very American thing to say, but I don’t think that’s true. It’s true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.’ – David Lindsay-Abaire

‘It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I’ve talked to thinks Michael is a perfect ‘Dexter,’ which never happens.’ – Jeff Lindsay

‘In this business, you’re dependent on the writer, the filmmaker, the luck of beating out who knows how many people for the part. I’m over getting torn up about that.’ – Boyd Holbrook

‘The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it’s not equal. We may have been created equal, but we’re not born equal. It’s a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.’ – Brad Pitt

‘You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up ‘seven’ is still a function of random luck.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘It’s a little luck and a little how you are able to go physically and mentally for all 90 minutes. They say that is typical German soccer. Maybe now it is typically Dutch.’ – Frank de Boer

‘I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don’t even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it’s bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it’s good luck. But I don’t like black cats!’ – Nuno Espirito Santo

‘The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.’ – Jamie Oliver

‘Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you’re gonna need it.’ – Jerry Reed

‘When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds – a lot of this was luck – when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them – back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers.’ – Stephanie Ruhle

‘I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.’ – Tom Freston

‘The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.’ – Nostradamus

‘When I’ve least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you’re passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you’ll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.’ – Julie Andrews

‘Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.’ – Wesley Morris

‘Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.’ – Douglas William Jerrold

‘I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.” – Tom Brokaw

‘Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama ‘Better Luck Tomorrow,’ a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it’s good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘Everyone has to find their own way, it’s just that I don’t want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.’ – Malcolm Wilson

‘If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you’re crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I’m late. I’ll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I’ll be like, ‘Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.” – Missy Elliott

‘Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.’ – Nicolas Sarkozy

‘I firmly believe in destiny, so let’s see what my luck has in store for me.’ – Rishi Kapoor

‘I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.’ – Chris Pine

‘When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle – great. If they don’t – good luck with that.’ – Jase Robertson

‘In tennis, because of the way it’s scored, I don’t think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants… We did some novel remixes of it but, at the end of the day, it was that: Grit and good luck.’ – Alexis Ohanian

‘The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.’ – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

‘No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.’ – Chi Chi Rodriguez

‘Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest… beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.’ – Josephine Baker

‘For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘I have certain values. I know where I come from. I am a hard worker. I’m conscious of my luck.’ – Olivier Giroud

‘I’ve had a lot of luck, which is the truth.’ – Seve Ballesteros

‘I’m a big believer in luck – the harder you work, the luckier you become.’ – Jeannette Walls

‘I’m not a good philanthropist yet; I’m not as good as I’d like to be… I believe very hard in luck. It’s all chance; therefore, any privilege you have is chaos.’ – Tim Minchin

‘We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?’ – Jean Cocteau

‘My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you’re doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.’ – Matthew Gray Gubler

‘Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.’ – Jose Saramago

‘One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.’ – Peter Mayle

‘I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that – added to a little luck – allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.’ – Hasso Plattner

‘It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘Fess up, ‘Hunger Games’ fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He’s the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.’ – Richard Corliss

‘Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I’ve seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.’ – Rick Wilson

‘I just had the absolute best luck in the world in terms of meeting The Young Bucks, and they might look like wild little rock stars who are irresponsible, but they are business geniuses. They set up the deal with Hot Topic, and they’re going to be the first 7-figure downside characters that New Japan Pro Wrestling has.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘With any luck, by the time NASA’s space probe hits Pluto, you’ll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.’ – Burt Rutan

‘For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.’ – Dolly Parton

‘People who are successful should never forget that it’s 90 per cent luck. You’ve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years – ‘Blankety Blank,’ the talk show, when I was winning every award going.’ – Terry Wogan

‘If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.’ – Sunil Chhetri

‘I want to win because I am the fastest out there instead, not by luck; then it means a lot more to you.’ – Max Verstappen

‘I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.’ – Patrick Murray

‘Working on ‘Good Luck Charlie’ has been an awesome experience, and it’s so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.’ – Bridgit Mendler

‘In 1986, I had gone on a hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan rooting for an alternative land for slum dwellers. My mother got very nervous and told my father to tell me that, ‘what am I doing?’ He sent me a telegram that read: ‘Best of luck, comrade!” – Shabana Azmi

‘If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.’ – Luis Bunuel

‘There are three elements of mountaineering – difficulty, danger, and exposure. Difficulty is the technical aspect of it. Danger, it is best to avoid, but some people like to increase danger to a point where their success is dependent only on luck. And exposure, which is what truly defines Alpinism, is what you face in wild nature.’ – Reinhold Messner

‘A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That’s luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that’s a disgusting attitude, revolting.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘I’m not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.’ – Marla Maples

‘When you play for 20 years – and really, I never had to miss a game due to injury – that’s not just good protection. That’s good luck.’ – Peyton Manning

‘Luck is just a stupid word in racing.’ – Denny Hamlin

‘As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.’ – Tom Hanks

‘The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It’s the magic. Charisma is a word that’s used too often; it’s something special, and it’s what makes stars. It’s luck, and basically, it’s genes.’ – Shirley Eaton

‘I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to get on his offensive line. I hated watching this young man get sacked as much as he did, especially when it came down to big games.’ – Emmitt Smith

‘There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.’ – Mats Wilander

‘Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.’ – Amber Tamblyn

‘For people like me, who appreciate the love and respect you get from the fans in Japan, there was no reason for me to turn my head to the other side and go try my options and luck in the UFC.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘I felt that I’d rather be lucky than good. That’s the aspect I kept bringing to baseball. The more superstitions I had, the better off I’d have of finding more luck.’ – Wade Boggs

‘If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.’ – Fred Saberhagen

‘I don’t believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn’t come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can’t just say, ‘No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn’t do it.’ You can’t blame anyone else.’ – S. S. Rajamouli

‘Some version of ‘Deal or No Deal’ airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it’s the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.’ – Howie Mandel

‘Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn’t give you the right to be any better than anybody else.’ – Nick Nolte

‘History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.’ – Stephane Hessel

‘Luck is believing you’re lucky.’ – Poppy Delevingne

‘You can’t just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.’ – Estelle Parsons

‘I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn’t have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.’ – Taron Egerton

‘I’m a really luck guy to play in the Premier League and have so many fans, so many supporters. This is a really lucky guy.’ – Son Heung-min

‘Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.’ – Bill Brandt

‘Nobody ever told me, ‘Art is this.’ This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.’ – Fernando Botero

‘So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.’ – Philippe Perrin

‘How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?’ – William Dean Howells

‘I cannot live a life where I’m deprived. I’d much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I’ll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I’ll get hit by a bus. Then I’ll be like… looking at myself from some afterlife going, ‘You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.” – Drew Barrymore

‘Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.’ – Marcelo

‘I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions! – Bear Grylls’ – Bear Grylls

‘If you’re going to believe in God, if you’re going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said ‘Good luck.” – Roger Rosenblatt

‘What’s important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.’ – Harrison Ford

‘People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.’ – Anne Tyler

‘That back four – Lee Dixon, Steve Bould, Nigel Winterburn and myself – doesn’t happen by luck. We worked hard on organisation. Morning and afternoon.’ – Tony Adams

‘It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-’80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen.’ – Helmut Kohl

‘It’s luck that one thing works out and one doesn’t, it’s sort of happenstance.’ – Richard Linklater

‘I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.’ – Steve Waugh

‘The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.’ – Herodotus

‘There are great actors we’ll never see just because they haven’t had my luck.’ – Joe Pesci

‘In doing the screenplay for ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.’ – George Clooney

‘Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, ‘Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!” – Teddy Sears

‘One death is too many – and with careful management and a lot of luck, the coronavirus sweeping the globe will be curbed, in terms of illness and loss of life.’ – Sharyl Attkisson

‘I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.’ – Samuel Goldwyn

‘Don’t minimize the importance of luck in determining life’s course.’ – Alex Trebek

‘The problem that people don’t understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they’re not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there’s a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There’s no skill involved it. It’s just good luck or bad luck.’ – Eugene Fama

‘Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘Everything in life is luck.’ – Donald Trump

‘Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.’ – Christopher Isherwood

‘Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning. You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning.’ – Louis Nizer

‘You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.’ – Barbara Bush

‘For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.’ – Paula Cole

‘I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.’ – Bill Cosby

‘Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.’ – Tris Speaker

‘I like to make people look as good as they’d like to look, and with luck, a shade better.’ – Norman Parkinson

‘It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.’ – James Agee

‘Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.’ – E. W. Howe

‘This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.’ – Amelia Barr

‘You don’t just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.’ – Barbara Bush

‘What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.’ – Robertson Davies

‘Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.’ – Aaron Allston

‘The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.’ – Alice James

‘I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don’t know how.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘I still have horrible luck with girls.’ – Jonathan Bennett

‘We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it’s brought me incredible good luck.’ – Sarah Hughes

‘There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that’s all. That’s what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.’ – Richard Dawson

‘The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.’ – Bob Goodlatte

‘I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said ‘Success is primarily luck anyway.’ And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant – so who am I to argue with him!’ – George Kennedy

‘Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.’ – Don Sutton

‘I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.’ – Ron Perlman

‘I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It’s so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There’s no question.’ – J. Carter Brown

‘Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.’ – John Glover

‘For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.’ – Timothy Zahn

‘Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.’ – Timothy Zahn

‘Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.’ – Allan Sherman

‘I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.’ – Al Alvarez

‘No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.’ – John Jakes

‘Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck.’ – Joel Chandler Harris

‘What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.’ – Victor Cherbuliez

‘Don’t you know by now, luck don’t lead to anything or why you keep on moving.’ – Steve Winwood

‘Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.’ – Frank Wedekind

‘My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I’ve got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.’ – Brett Hull

‘Hopefully it’ll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I’m not really a superstitious person.’ – Steven Gerrard

‘The greatest luck that I’ve had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.’ – John Engler

‘I think it is an inborn talent – just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.’ – Mike Thompson

‘I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.’ – Edmond H. Fischer

‘Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don’t see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.’ – Erin Moran

‘I’m really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it – that was just weird luck.’ – Joshua Leonard

‘I can’t speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can’t do it constantly, unless you’re willing to put the resources in.’ – Merton Miller

‘One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn’t everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you’ve no chance.’ – John Barrow

”Press Your Luck’ was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.’ – Randy West

‘Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on ‘Press Your Luck’. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.’ – Randy West

‘I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!’ – Deborah Bull

‘I’ve had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I’m dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn’t know, though.’ – Julie Bowen

‘When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.’ – Julie Harris

‘Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.’ – Pat Brown

‘If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get going next day.’ – Philip Pullman

‘I haven’t done a marathon for a long time. So we’ll see. I will need good luck.’ – Haile Gebrselassie

‘I wasn’t campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you’ve got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.’ – Patrick Stewart

‘I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.’ – Michelle Hunziker

‘It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn’t want to stay on the farm. It didn’t offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.’ – Clyde Tombaugh

‘Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!’ – Felix Bloch

‘I’ve always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it’s the type of thing I could get used to.’ – Donnie Iris

‘Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.’ – Alain Resnais

‘People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don’t.’ – William Hurt

‘I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.’ – Arthur Golden

‘I have great luck. I’m used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly – but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.’ – Rose McGowan

‘I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘Everything about it worked, and I don’t mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there’s also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.’ – David Zucker

‘There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It’s not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.’ – Lakhdar Brahimi

‘I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.’ – Judith Guest

‘I’ve had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I’ve seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.’ – Jonathan Lethem

‘I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.’ – David Friedman

‘No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.’ – Patty Duke

‘Everything happens to me. I’ve never had a streak of luck in my life.’ – Eddie Slovik

‘The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn’t last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.’ – Eddie Slovik

‘But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.’ – Ibrahim Babangida

‘That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.’ – Laurence Housman

‘Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.’ – Thomas Perry

‘Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don’t try it without that 10 per cent.’ – Richie Benaud

‘Luck relies on chance, labor on character.’ – Richard Cobden

‘It wasn’t like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.’ – Alison Moyet

‘Yes, I’ve had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.’ – Gene Krupa

‘I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.’ – Robert Sheckley

‘I pick good women, but I haven’t had any luck with my men.’ – Elizabeth Arden

‘The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.’ – Victoria Abril

‘You can’t rely on luck. I’ve had some stages in my career where I’ve said we’re going to wing it, and we’ve always ended up in trouble.’ – George Thorogood

‘To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.’ – Patrick MacGill

‘I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.’ – Zinedine Zidane

‘I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.’ – Angela Merkel

‘I had the luck of having an obedient body.’ – Burt Lancaster

‘And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.’ – Ed Bradley

‘In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.’ – Jacky Ickx

‘Frankly – and believe me, I say this without any pretense – when I see the road I’ve taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I’ve come out pretty well.’ – James MacArthur

‘I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.’ – Gene Tierney

‘The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?’ – David McCullough

‘The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one’s biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.’ – Derek Walcott

‘My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.’ – James Weldon Johnson

‘There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven’t had the luck to fall into everything like I have.’ – Glenn Tipton

‘If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it’s not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you’re truly blessed. I think that’s where we are now.’ – Edie Brickell

‘Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it’s because you’re talented.’ – Whoopi Goldberg

‘You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don’t be an actor because you think you’re going to get famous, because that’s luck.’ – Whoopi Goldberg

‘Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.’ – Loretta Swit

‘Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.’ – Don Shula

‘I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that’s not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.’ – Roger Staubach

‘Yes, there’s a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.’ – Edmund Clarence Stedman

‘Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.’ – V. S. Naipaul

‘The luck will alter and the star will rise.’ – John Masefield

‘With luck on your side, you can do without brains.’ – Giordano Bruno

‘Luck’s always to blame.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they’d bust it to Corporal! – Robert Orben’ – Robert Orben

‘The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘I’m lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.’ – Neil Diamond

‘Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.’ – Tom Holt

‘There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.’ – E. M. Forster

‘I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.’ – Michelle Kwan

‘English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.’ – E. B. White

‘Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.’ – Michael Korda

‘Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.’ – Livy

‘With a little bit of luck, you’ll never work!’ – Alan Jay Lerner

‘The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it… I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.’ – Alain Juppe

‘I’m amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I’m so lucky, though my mum always says, ‘You make your own luck.” – Orlando Bloom

‘I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.’ – Carl Paladino

‘I feel I’d like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.’ – Susannah York

‘The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

‘Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in ‘Transformers.’ I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.’ – Michael Bay

‘I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, ‘good night, and good luck.” – Mike Wallace

‘I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.’ – Danica McKellar

‘When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you’re just filling them with stuff they don’t need yet.’ – Anna Chlumsky

‘I don’t believe in luck.’ – Nelly

‘It’s hard to have any kind of luck in this business.’ – Leighton Meester

‘I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in ‘Friday Night Lights’ and ‘The Kingdom.’ I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.’ – Peter Berg

‘I’ve had a lot of luck. If I didn’t I’d be washing bottles in Russia.’ – Marat Safin

‘I would like to say I’ve achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You’re not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.’ – Brooklyn Decker

‘The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you’re not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you’ll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn’t work like that. So much is luck. It’s much better to let yourself off, to think, ‘There’s nothing I can do.” – Matthew Macfadyen

‘I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.’ – Antony Beevor

‘I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘I have very little faith that I’ll ever find someone. I’ve had some bad luck and I’ve made some bad choices – not in men, but in how I’ve chosen to deal with relationships.’ – Selma Blair

‘I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.’ – Eric Bana

‘I’m not a political thinker, but I’ve just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.’ – David Walliams

‘If you’re lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It’s not a given, you know? It’s not like, ‘Well, it’s normal’. No, it’s not normal. It’s lucky.’ – Christopher Lambert

‘For an actor to have a role that they’re recognized and remembered for over the years, it’s unusual. It’s very lucky if it happens once – and it’s luck that it’s happened to me a couple of times.’ – Curtis Armstrong

‘I’ve had the most incredible luck in my career.’ – Richard Dawson

‘I think I’m bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger’s the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he’s not in the field, it’s a relief because he’s such a great player.’ – Webb Simpson

‘I want to do some fiction writing, I’ve had some pretty good luck with short stories, I’d like to do a couple of larger things.’ – Janis Ian

‘I think there’s a million talented people out there, it’s just a matter of luck a lot of the time.’ – Joan Cusack

‘As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.’ – Gwen Moore

‘Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that’s the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can’t stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.’ – Brad Thor

‘There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.’ – Steve Sabol

‘Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.’ – Chuck Norris

‘I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I’ve learnt that through life you just get on with it. You’re going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.’ – Roger Moore

‘Well, if you’re looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who’d be like that – totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you’ll get the politicians you deserve.’ – William Hague

‘You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they’re so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you’re sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.’ – Hope Davis

‘Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.’ – Iain Duncan Smith

‘I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.’ – Eric Clapton

‘Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.’ – Kirk Douglas

‘I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.’ – Kristen Stewart

‘At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.’ – Lewis Thomas

‘Here’s where I luck out: I’m really computer illiterate.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘Sometimes I still can’t believe my luck.’ – David Bailey

‘I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It’s going to be a lot tougher than you think.’ – Vince Flynn

‘Look, I haven’t had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.’ – Rick Majerus

‘I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.’ – Brian Eno

‘There’s certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I’ve ended up.’ – Clive Owen

‘People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It’s either that or I’m down on my luck, I’ve got no money, the work’s dried up.’ – Minnie Driver

‘I say the one thing about luck is you can’t really count on it.’ – Ron Livingston

‘I feel very, very grateful. I’m a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.’ – Brad Garrett

‘I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck – both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.’ – Howard Gardner

‘When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that’s bad luck.’ – Chad Kroeger

‘Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there’s a lot of luck involved in that, you’re playing a different character.’ – Zachary Levi

‘I’m trying to focus on original material. That is what I’ve had my luck with.’ – Idina Menzel

‘I don’t think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.’ – Jason Aldean

‘It’ll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up ‘Fly Over States’ as his election song. Then I’ll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!’ – Jason Aldean

‘Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.’ – Dana Spiotta

‘You need to be lucky in life, but it’s also what you do with your luck.’ – Marlon Wayans

‘I have mad luck. I’m super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.’ – Zoe Kazan

‘I’ve always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.’ – Oren Peli

‘Life is about luck and it’s about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It’s about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.’ – Mike Leigh

‘Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.’ – Bill Buckner

‘So much luck! I’m not putting myself down, I’m not saying I don’t have talent – I must have, to have got this far – but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.’ – John Mahoney

‘First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.’ – Barry Manilow

‘There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.’ – Alan Sugar

‘For me there is no such word as ‘luck’ in the dictionary.’ – Fabrice Muamba

‘It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it’s not one-on-one, it’s a one-on-12. It’s very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.’ – Feist

‘The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.’ – Rodney Atkins

‘It’s far too much to say that effective hoping is the only – or even the biggest – part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you’re selling, and often pure, dumb luck.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘I’ve had great luck with directors. I’ve worked with all the great ones.’ – Jerry Weintraub

‘I’m not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.’ – Prabal Gurung

‘The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama’s Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self – with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘Everything we do on ‘Luck’ is absolutely no different than if we’d had been doing it in a feature film. There’s no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.’ – Michael Mann

‘We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.’ – Michael Mann

‘My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.’ – Naveen Jain

‘My parents didn’t believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.’ – Naveen Jain

‘I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.’ – Jamaica Kincaid

‘I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we’ve created are completely unnecessary. That’s just another person on the other side, and it’s his bad luck that he was born there and it’s my good fortune that I was born here. It’s all kind of illogical.’ – Eddie Huang

‘Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.’ – Tig Notaro

‘If you’ve been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who’s in and who’s out changes by the year. It’s really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn’t having it a year or two from now.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘I don’t find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That’s it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.’ – Jay McInerney

‘Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It’s got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers’ comp. And God help you if you’re poor and mentally ill.’ – Gail Collins

‘Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you’re stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.’ – Mark Vonnegut

‘You have to have talent to some extent – I certainly hope I have talent – but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.’ – Robert Jordan

‘I’m not saying people shouldn’t apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn’t get a break.’ – David Lindsay-Abaire

‘I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it’s the only career in the world that you can’t choose for yourself – you have to be chosen.’ – Ines de La Fressange

‘Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That’s luck. That’s randomness.’ – Ben Casnocha

‘I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It’s not just photography I’m talking about. It’s about whatever dream you want it to be.’ – Sam Abell

‘You need a great idea, but then you’ve got to carry it through. If you get it right, you’re going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there’s an element of luck.’ – Ian Rankin

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

‘We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war – our home and our identity. But I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.’ – Sigmar Polke

‘I now believe that there’s only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.’ – Marshall Brickman

‘There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.’ – P. T. Barnum

‘My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.’ – Adolphe Menjou

‘I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I’ve thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don’t have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding – such is the role of a scientist.’ – Brian Schmidt

‘I’ve found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I’ve got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I’ve gotten really lucky that way.’ – Zoe Kravitz

‘It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

‘Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘In the U.S., the ’50s and ’60s marked the documentary’s golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme ‘Hunger in America.” – Naomi Wolf

‘Let’s dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can’t gauge things by album sales.’ – Jerry Cantrell

‘I give as much as I can, and it’s up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!’ – John C. Reilly

‘I’m currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.’ – Haley Webb

‘I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.’ – David J. Anderson

‘I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I’m a little smarter than him, maybe I’m not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals… I’ve just kind of got the old silly boy luck!’ – Luke Bryan

‘I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It’s called ‘My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.’ A publisher came to me and said, ‘Write a book,’ so I did. I wanted to call it ‘Everybody Else Has Got a Book.” – Dick Van Dyke

‘If you play a real character who’s famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.’ – Daniel Bruhl

”Good Luck Charlie’ is different from all the other Disney Channel shows because it’s so relatable. Everything that happens on the show can happen to you and your family.’ – Bradley Steven Perry

‘I think the most fun part about working on ‘Good Luck Charlie’ is spending time with everyone, honestly, because everybody on set is like my brother and sister and mom and dad. They’re so fun to be around, so that’s probably the best part about working there.’ – Bradley Steven Perry

‘Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I’ve learned that you shouldn’t take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin – which is so true.’ – Marc Warren

‘My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can’t be done.’ – Marianne Faithfull

‘I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.’ – Gareth Bale

‘I really fell into drama school – I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn’t take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.’ – Charlie Cox

‘There’s something about ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It’s lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there’s nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.’ – Cherie Lunghi

‘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.’ – Drew Carey

‘I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘I’ve really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter’s life. But I’m also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager – that would be just my luck!’ – Jessica Valenti

‘I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it’s because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph – luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.’ – Teju Cole

‘I’ve had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I’d really like to give that another go. I don’t know if I’d chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘A lot of people that I started out with, I don’t know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I’ve been very blessed.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘You often hear people say ‘Luck is self made.’ I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don’t. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.’ – Greg Lake

‘I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don’t want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I’m old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.’ – Bea Arthur

‘Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?’ – Rachel Nichols

‘If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn’t believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.’ – Olly Murs

‘Everyone has a talent. It’s simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.’ – Twyla Tharp

‘I know I’ve been lucky. But it’s what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.’ – Zac Efron

‘You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.’ – David Mamet

‘If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.’ – Katrina Kaif

‘I am a great believer in luck.’ – Oleg Cassini

‘Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.’ – Teddy Sears

‘When you first start singing something after you’ve written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that’s luck.’ – Jesse Harris

‘We are very luck to be women, so even if we’re wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra – I like that.’ – Carine Roitfeld

‘Friends give me a hard time about the pants I’m wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.’ – Adam McKay

‘Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.’ – Fergus Henderson

‘Losing one’s mother to a car crash at age four isn’t a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I’ve come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.’ – Allegra Huston

‘I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It’s simply the luck of where you are, when.’ – Mike Nichols

‘Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors – a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.’ – Ellen McLaughlin

‘I had thought up the title, ‘The Good Luck of Right Now,’ several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, ‘Someday I’m going to write a book with that title.” – Matthew Quick

‘I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘I was taken to my first fashion show – Nina Ricci haute couture – in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.’ – Suzy Menkes

‘If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It’s illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.’ – Clive Thompson

‘I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don’t want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘I don’t know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can’t do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person – when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.’ – Emraan Hashmi

‘I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 – like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.’ – Emraan Hashmi

‘I’m not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don’t have any ring or any tangible thing as a charm. But I like to have at least one of my parents with me during my shows. It gives me strength to find their faces… or my brothers… in the audience. It comforts me.’ – Shreya Ghoshal

‘I’ve learned the truth in these sayings: ‘Luck is when opportunity meets preparation’ and ‘The right project will find you’.’ – Tony Oller

‘Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.’ – Jane Hirshfield

‘When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they’re hard to find. They’re covered in sand. They’re difficult to see.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘It’s my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That’s really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.’ – Damian Marley

‘In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.’ – Eleanor Catton

‘For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building’s front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.’ – Kim Young-ha

‘I’m very conscious of the luck I’ve had. It’s important to have this in your mind and remember it.’ – Astrid Berges-Frisbey

‘Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout – that, in essence, you’re telling the middle class, ‘Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.” – Timothy Noah

‘Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.’ – Kate Reardon

‘The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.’ – Kate Reardon

‘As an older and wiser man, I don’t believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.’ – Dexter Fletcher

‘My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘This industry isn’t fair. It doesn’t owe anybody a career. It’s just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.’ – Samuel Barnett

‘There’s no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren’t many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That’s the model I aspire to if I’m lucky enough. It’s all about luck.’ – Ayelet Zurer

‘I believe I’ve accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.’ – Camilo Villegas

‘I believe in luck. My luck’s real streaky.’ – D. B. Sweeney

‘One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It’s a working club and a working city. I don’t know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can’t do anything. I think they’re happy with me here.’ – Fernando Torres

‘A film like ‘Good Night And Good Luck,’ you make that for $7 million because you know it’s a black-and-white film, and it’s not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.’ – Grant Heslov

‘When you look at a film like ‘The Ides of March’ or ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ even, those are really contained pictures.’ – Grant Heslov

‘It’s Obama’s bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.’ – Tina Brown

‘I’ve had opportunities. But winning a major is not only about playing well. It’s about having ‘winner’s luck.’ I had winner’s luck in 1999 at Medinah, but it didn’t take me all the way.’ – Sergio Garcia

‘In my books, there is no ‘ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan’ syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn’t a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that’s why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!’ – Maeve Binchy

‘I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.’ – Antony Beevor

‘What is the luck of the draw that me – me – who finally writes a book, it comes out in the – in the – in the time, in the center of the first pandemic, H1N1? And I’m going out on signings, and I’m going out to the public. This is the one time when I need to be hermetically sealed.’ – Howie Mandel

‘My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.’ – Sam Shepard

‘People down on their luck deserve the best: beautiful surroundings and well-paid professional staff to help them out of their difficulties. Why not train thousands more social workers and let them sit in on claimants’ interviews?’ – Sue Townsend

‘I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.’ – Gautam Adani

‘There’s more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.’ – Terry Wogan

‘The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It’s just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.’ – Tom Scholz

‘I don’t think it’s more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘There’s very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it’s a lot of work and a lot of luck.’ – Oscar Isaac

‘I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.’ – George Kaiser

‘When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as ‘E.L.’ But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.’ – E. L. Konigsburg

‘First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.’ – Gaines Adams

‘I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I’ve found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.’ – Clive Davis

‘As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it’s not something we necessarily have control over. It’s just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you’ve just got to enjoy it.’ – Mike Colter

‘Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn’t deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.’ – Jacob Ruppert

‘Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to ‘own’ them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.’ – Barry Ritholtz

‘For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.’ – Kellin Quinn

‘My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn’t for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn’t end up doing that either.’ – Safra A. Catz

”Jurassic Park’ isn’t about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.’ – Colin Trevorrow

‘To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.’ – Abby Wambach

‘Every song I’ve written is luck, I think; it’s luck – ‘How did that just happen?” – Daron Malakian

‘Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don’t miss opportunities.’ – Ivan Glasenberg

‘Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, ‘Oh, that’s so sweet, good luck with that!’ It can be very frustrating.’ – James Norton

‘As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I’d like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future – and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.’ – Janet Fitch

‘I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.’ – Graham Elliot

‘I’m an actor. I’m hired to play whatever it is they want me to play – if I’m lucky enough to be cast for the part – which seems to take a lot of luck these days.’ – Melanie Mayron

‘My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don’t believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it’s purely luck.’ – Euzhan Palcy

‘My first YA novel, not many people have read. It’s a fickle business. There’s a degree of timing and luck involved.’ – Gayle Forman

‘I don’t know if that’s a year’s bad luck, or if that’s how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree – that can’t be a good thing, karma-wise.’ – Adrian McKinty

‘There’s a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.’ – J. Maarten Troost

‘During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That’s not much of a choice.’ – Trevor Noah

‘You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I’ve really learned to appreciate that.’ – Azim Premji

‘As far as the timing, well, I’d write that off to luck as much as anything – I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.’ – Warren Spector

‘There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.’ – John Gurdon

‘Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.’ – Peter Lindbergh

‘If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you’re lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that’s just a matter of luck. You can’t attribute that to anything else.’ – Bob McNair

‘Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn’t an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that’s pure luck.’ – Bob McNair

‘Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.’ – Martti Ahtisaari

‘SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.’ – Henry Spencer

‘As an actor, I’m always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.’ – Elden Henson

‘I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn’t always happen – and then, what happens when it doesn’t?’ – Mary Ellen Mark

”Hardware’ came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn’t had any luck getting them made.’ – Richard Stanley

‘All Americans knew was ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.’ – Kevin Kwan

‘When I started writing ‘Luck in the Shadows,’ I just wanted to create an adventure story.’ – Lynn Flewelling

‘I’m like a teenage boy – I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.’ – Julia London

‘My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of ‘Waiting to Exhale’ is that publishing woke up. They said, ‘Wow. Black people do read.” – Tananarive Due

‘It’s a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I’ve had the luck to work with, and it’s just been a great experience for me, and I’m glad that so many of the films I’ve had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.’ – Harrison Ford

‘I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else’s, too.’ – Romesh Gunesekera

‘With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one’s strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria’s Secret catalogs.’ – Michael Dirda

‘Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one’s books in print, one’s reputation alive.’ – Michael Dirda

‘I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.’ – Jamie Lawson

‘The theme of luck comes up a lot. It’s something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren’t lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I’ve always been fascinated by that.’ – Patrick deWitt

‘In Kazakhstan, once you’re someone’s guest, it’s really hard to get away – everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.’ – Tim Cope

‘I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even – gasp – a rabbit foot – which actually kind of disgusts me now.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘I haven’t gotten jobs because I’m famous or I have a big Twitter feed – it’s primarily directors. People employ me because I’m right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.’ – Jason Clarke

‘If there’s a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there’s a lot of scaffolding? I won’t walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.’ – Lauren Groff

‘Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth – you’ll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.’ – Jay Samit

‘By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews – and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.’ – Carol Loomis

‘I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don’t predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble – but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.’ – Louise Erdrich

‘If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can’t control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.’ – Scott Adams

‘If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it’s your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.’ – Scott Adams

‘It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we did not run over an IED. And to dishonor our service by saying we’re not worthy of being called combat veterans is insulting to the majority of men and women who serve their country honorably.’ – Joni Ernst

‘Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it’s a great shot, but if it goes in, it’s luck?’ – David L. Wolper

‘I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.’ – Edith Pearlman

‘I think it is bad luck to put shoes on a table or walk under ladders.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you’ve got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish ‘Wayne’s World’ money on you!’ – Dana Carvey

‘I’ve just had some bad luck. I’ve had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, ‘How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?’ But it did.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘You make your own luck by working hard, you know?’ – James McBride

‘I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.’ – Mauricio Macri

‘Luck is not having to worry, but also working hard to preserve the things that once gave your life meaning, like work and love.’ – Michael Paterniti

‘I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.’ – Richard Branson

‘If something touches me, I cry. That’s it. I’m a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, ‘I don’t think this is a scene where your character cries.’ And all I can say is, good luck with that!’ – Olivia Colman

‘To win competitions you need a bit of luck and some talent. I think we have some talent on our bus.’ – Sonny Bill Williams

‘You don’t just need skills and talent, you also need luck.’ – Lin Dan

‘Even though arguably I could have done much better at school, I’d decided at a young age that I was going to be a professional sportsman at some sport. And at that stage, there was a bit of luck: I was fortunate to meet the right people at the right time to get me to where I am now.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘Over the years, I’ve had torrid luck with things going wrong.’ – Greg Rutherford

‘There’s a lot of bunch finishes, which are hectic and kind of dangerous; you need a lot of luck to win those.’ – Lizzie Armitstead

‘I don’t believe in rituals that produce luck. I believe that a good preparation can raise my chances for a callback. With that, I know what I need to do, so I go in there and do my best.’ – Vincent Rodriguez III

‘In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he’d had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of ‘Judaizing.” – Tom Reiss

‘When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He’s the king of being like, ‘I don’t know. It’s good work if you can get it. Good luck.” – Wyatt Russell

‘States with better-educated citizens also see economic benefits. These states have better luck recruiting and retaining quality employers, and they enjoy lower overall rates of unemployment, poverty, and welfare dependency.’ – Doug Ducey

‘I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.’ – Janet Reno

‘My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs showed me you can pick and choose the qualities of your philosophy, based on what works for you.’ – Amy Tan

‘When my mother read ‘The Joy Luck Club’, she was always complaining to me how she had to tell her friends that, no, she was not the mother or any of the mothers in the book.’ – Amy Tan

‘Luck is in every part of China. Many Chinese stores and restaurants have the word ‘luck’ in their names. The idea is that, just by using the word ‘luck’ in names of things, you can attract more of it. I think that’s true in my life as well. You attract luck because you go after it.’ – Amy Tan

‘When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.’ – Michael Korda

‘One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn’t hope to be like Rita Hayworth.’ – Suzy Kendall

‘I’ve been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can’t believe my luck.’ – Melvyn Bragg

‘Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.’ – Janet Yellen

‘I don’t believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it’s just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.’ – Kajal Aggarwal

‘I’m very superstitious, and I think it’s bad luck. You don’t have to show your love by tattooing it.’ – Priya Sachdev

‘There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.’ – Jeffrey Dean Morgan

‘Within a five-month period, I got ‘Weeds,’ ‘Supernatural,’ and ‘Grey’s.’ I think a lot of it had to do with luck.’ – Jeffrey Dean Morgan

‘Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one’s life. It’s the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you’re doing.’ – Jeffrey Dean Morgan

‘Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.’ – D. B. Sweeney

‘You have to identify your shot and be ‘Push your luck’ ready for it.’ – D. B. Sweeney

‘I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck – the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.’ – Dele Alli

‘I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I’d try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.’ – Vijay Sethupathi

‘My first film would have been ‘Rough,’ and it got delayed. ‘Venkatadri Express’ released first and became a big success. I signed ‘Venkatadri’ after 15 days of shooting for ‘Rough’. I had lot of faith in the script, and I feel luck plays a major part.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘I’ve worked hard, for sure, but like anything, it takes a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, and then making the most of the opportunity.’ – Dave Filoni

‘When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘The good ones push their luck to the limit – like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.’ – William Wyler

‘I’ve paid my dues. It wasn’t overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions… But I’ve got to give luck some credit.’ – Madchen Amick

‘There’s no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, ‘OK, I’m going to model my ascent based on this other person’s,’ luck and timing play such a big part that it’s really futile.’ – Allison Williams

‘My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside – we kept them for good luck.’ – Dana Perino

‘Some credit is due to Trump for seizing the anti establishment mood of the country, but most of his success can be attributed to pure luck.’ – Bob Beckel

‘Of course I would love to have another track as big as ‘Animals,’ but ‘Animals’ became big also because of luck, the timing, and hype.’ – Martin Garrix

‘You have to have a work ethic. It is always 24/7. It is a lot of sweat equity, and it is a little bit of Lady Luck.’ – Linda McMahon

‘When ‘Joy Luck Club’ came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I’m much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.’ – Lauren Tom

‘Good luck to you if you’re lucky enough to have faith. Some of us aren’t lucky enough. My mother has great faith and finds great comfort in it, and I’m jealous of her!’ – Liam Cunningham

‘If you wanted to travel backwards in time, you’re out of luck. We have theories on how it might be possible to do so, but they all involve wormholes and black holes and other stuff that would probably kill you. If you want to travel forward in time, you just have to go really fast.’ – Kyle Hill

‘One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, ‘Oh, you should keep it,’ but I was like, ‘You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.’ I said that to Coldplay!’ – Charli XCX

‘During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it’s been 99% luck.’ – Roger Moore

‘I had the wonderful good luck of having Jimmy Gandolfini as my mentor and David Chase as my godfather, two of the most talented guys in the history of television.’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I’ve had in this business has been luck, and 50 percent has been casting – so that’s 80 percent right there. And 20 percent is just working really hard and taking risks.’ – Greg Berlanti

‘Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot’s statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘Some days, I’ll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I’m convinced it’s all a combination of luck and opportunity.’ – Taylor Jenkins Reid

‘Humans having any kind of sporting chance against hostile alien invaders armed with superior technology – Good luck. If they’re advanced enough to cross the enormous distances of interstellar space, they’re advanced enough to wipe us out without breaking whatever in their physiology passes for a sweat.’ – Nick Sagan

‘Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can’t deny that. But it came down to more than luck.’ – Anthony Scaramucci

‘In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can’t complain.’ – Jon Tenney

‘People say you make your own luck; I don’t think that’s the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘It’s not about having luck; it’s about putting yourself in a position of luck.’ – Kay Cannon

‘I’ll wager there isn’t a human being on earth who doesn’t believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck – and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.’ – Lawrence Osborne

‘Good luck dragging me into a horror movie! I get so scared. It’s an overactive imagination or something.’ – Natalia Dyer

‘I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.’ – Jack Lemmon

‘There is no formula to enter Bollywood. It’s a lot to do with luck.’ – Hazel Keech

‘Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on.’ – Bo Burnham

‘Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.’ – Priscilla Chan

‘Great actors can transform, but sometimes there’s just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they’re that character. That is something you can’t teach an actor; that’s something that’s luck and chance.’ – David Leitch

‘I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: ‘Good luck, good luck, good luck – Mama.” – Dinah Manoff

‘There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it’s still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.’ – Gary Bettman

‘In the rare cases where I’ve had to cut a company loose, I just tell them why and wish them luck and hope they learn something from it. I don’t spend more mental energy on it than I have to, and I try very hard not to hold a grudge or try to negatively affect them either. It’s just done for me.’ – David Cohen

‘The press always compared my family to the Kennedys – so much bad luck.’ – Ginevra Elkann

‘I entered this glam world by luck. I wanted to join dancing classes since I was a child, but my parents never gave me the permission to do so, as no one in our family had ever chosen this path. Fortunately, I got my first break in a reality show easily due to my dance skills, so that way I have been lucky.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here’s a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, ‘If we did it, you can do it.” – David Bryan

‘I’m an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.’ – Busy Philipps

‘It’s my luck that I was born a bit of an old soul, and it’s served me well.’ – Laurence Fishburne

‘I think that, generally, a woman brings in luck for her husband after marriage, but in my case, my husband is lucky for me.’ – Anita Hassanandani Reddy

‘The difficulty with American television is it’s pot luck.’ – Robert Rinder

‘I dread my trial at the pearly gates – knowing my luck, I’ll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views.’ – Robert Rinder

‘Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.’ – Anushka Shetty

‘If you’re entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn’t take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.’ – Zac Posen

‘Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.’ – Mitchell Zuckoff

‘It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in ‘Trainspotting,’ but it’s been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don’t want my brain to implode.’ – Kelly Macdonald

‘Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.’ – Valerie Harper

‘In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one’s future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored.’ – Lawrence Wright

‘There are not a lot of things that Andrew Luck can’t do, but the thing I like about him is his work ethic. He’s a workaholic, and that’s what impresses me the most.’ – Jon Gruden

‘My perspective is never gonna change on that… We’ve got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, ‘Good luck in life.’ That’s just not right.’ – Charles Barkley

‘The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they’re making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff.’ – Liam Cunningham

‘I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.’ – William Klein

‘There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it’s just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director’s vision.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘It’s hard becoming a member of a girl group among so many competitors. You have to have luck and also need to work hard.’ – Jessica Jung

‘I was in Girls’ Generation because of luck, and fortunately, Girls’ Generation received a lot of love. I would want to help my daughter walk a different career path.’ – Jessica Jung

‘I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.’ – Anthony McCarten

‘My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him – she was his mascot.’ – Omar Sharif

‘I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.’ – David Slade

‘The older I get, I realize, ‘Man, I’m a very rare bird,’ and that’s not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.’ – Herta Muller

‘I’ve had a lot more good luck than bad, and I’ve made a lot more good pictures than bad ones, and I’m pretty happy with what I have. I don’t walk around regretting too many things.’ – Michael Madsen

‘When someone is successful, there’s always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.’ – Faye Dunaway

‘For all the challenges I’ve faced in my path to self-acceptance, I’ve also traveled it with my own set of luck and privilege.’ – Alyson Stoner

‘For a company to be successful, it’s not just about ideas. It’s also about luck. And everything else coming together.’ – Naveen Tewari

‘You can’t replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.’ – Aneel Bhusri

‘I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.’ – Jessie Buckley

‘The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is ‘luck’ or ‘zeitgeist’ – in short, things that are not in our hands.’ – Elif Safak

‘It’s probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you’re done.’ – Kevin Harvick

‘I’ve been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.’ – Kevin Harvick

‘Honestly, I don’t believe in luck.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘I’m on the record as saying Andrew Luck can be the greatest quarterback who ever played the game of football. I’ve seen him do some unbelievable things that I still can’t believe a quarterback was able to do. I have tremendous respect for that guy.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘Luck favors the brave.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever – a window of opportunity – that is totally outside of your control, and it’s that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.’ – Wyatt Cenac

‘When I was doing ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.’ – Audra McDonald

‘I’m a Trump guy. I wasn’t in the beginning, of course. I’m Mexican, when he said we need to take all the Mexicans out of United States… well, good luck on that one. They’ll find a way to get back here anyways.’ – Tito Ortiz

‘Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, ‘You’re signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!” – Scott Borchetta

‘I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it’s like, ‘Good luck getting a black man.” – Yvonne Orji

‘My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, ‘Don’t walk under a ladder or you’ll have bad luck,’ or, ‘If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you’re in trouble.” – Charlotte Rae

‘Getting into graduate school was pure luck.’ – Paul G. Tremblay

‘I won’t talk of bad luck. I don’t believe in it.’ – Sergio Marchionne

‘I know I have been lucky in business, and I am keen now to spread goodwill to others, of course not forgetting that very often, you make your own luck by making use of every opportunity.’ – Theo Paphitis

‘I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things.’ – Ry Cooder

‘In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it’s still luck of the draw.’ – Sonoya Mizuno

‘You’ve got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.’ – Rick Nielsen

‘I look upon ‘A Little Bit of Luck’ as a very bizarre, happy, surreal memory.’ – Brett Gelman

‘Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and – if married to princes or kings – be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.’ – Linda Colley

‘I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck – and luck does play a huge part – to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘There’s always some extent of luck going into getting a job. I try not to think too much about my own looks or how I work. There’s a danger in becoming too self-aware.’ – Bill Skarsgard

‘Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won’t necessarily take you all the way. Talent, nepotism, influence, and pure luck play a huge part.’ – David Brin

‘For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘A lot of people work extremely hard and through no fault of their own – bad luck, the wrong environment, unfortunate circumstances – struggle to survive.’ – Justine Musk

‘When you’re in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.’ – Gerard Pique

‘I know all too well what it takes to have a hit: A little bit of luck, a little bit of work, a little bit of talent.’ – LP

‘It was a beautiful custom. When a person who had a break of good luck entered a cafe and ordered a cup of coffee, he didn’t pay just for one, but for two cups, allowing someone less fortunate who entered later to have a cup of coffee for free.’ – Luciano De Crescenzo

‘Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.’ – Peter Sellers

‘It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.’ – Taapsee Pannu

‘I’ve never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.’ – The Great Khali

‘You should know that you need talent, passion, and luck to be a singer.’ – Neha Kakkar

‘I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.’ – Bret Hart

‘I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.’ – Arjen Robben

‘Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.’ – Thomas Muller

‘I think it’s brain chemistry. I’m a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that’s how it turns out.’ – Ann Patchett

‘I am hugely grateful to Mourinho. He is the coach who gave me my opportunity with Real Madrid, and I wish him lots of luck.’ – Alvaro Morata

‘I’ve always had the luck or blessing that someone would say, ‘I liked what you did in that movie. I’d like you to be in my movie.” – Charlie Murphy

‘My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it’s genetic luck or malfunction that I’ve ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can’t drink.’ – Richard E. Grant

‘I think about people whose lives maybe hadn’t turned out as well as me and Joel’s lives, and I just think it’s just pure luck and the grace of God. I also think we were lucky to have each other as brothers.’ – Benji Madden

‘Luck – it’s key for every footballer’s career. I have been incredibly lucky during my career and in my life.’ – Juan Mata

‘I had the luck of being in Madrid. They sign some of the best players in the world, and that really leaves fewer opportunities for young players.’ – Juan Mata

‘Aparshakti has his own journey, and as a sibling, I can only wish him good luck. I would also love to work with him as an actor.’ – Ayushmann Khurrana

‘There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.’ – John Prine

‘By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.’ – Tobias Forge

‘I’m lucky that I enjoy playing live; it’s my passion to do that. There’s certain artists that never want to play live. They just want to be in the studio. Good luck, because there is no income.’ – Peter Frampton

‘It’s a very competitive industry, and so much of it does come down to luck, so I feel very blessed that I’ve been given the opportunities that I have, and I guess that’s what fuels me – the fight to keep going.’ – Eleanor Tomlinson

‘In a stage race, you can have bad luck or make a mistake, and it’s not the end of the race. You have more opportunities.’ – Geraint Thomas

‘Andrew Luck is a great quarterback.’ – Saquon Barkley

‘I was satisfied with my role in ‘Luck,’ and I am proud of the film.’ – Shruti Haasan

‘Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it’ll save us all.’ – Isaac Brock

‘As for trying to feed off a mouthful of sky, it’s a large mouth, hence there’s nothing to worry. I wish good luck to everyone.’ – Subhash Chandra

‘The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.’ – Kevin Jonas

‘I have had bad luck with injuries, but I can’t keep saying I’ve been injured a lot.’ – Jack Wilshere

‘I play poker, a game where there is no edge but the luck of the deal and the skill of the player.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell

‘I’ve learned lots, obviously – the first thing being never to forget to be grateful. The second is not to bear grudges, because in football, luck does not exist.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘There are so many different factors – luck, being in good shape when it matters, the draw. For these reasons, it’s hard to win a European Cup.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘If you don’t meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won’t get you all the way there.’ – Asia Kate Dillon

‘I didn’t really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don’t really belong.’ – Markus Persson

‘I keep my key chain simple because I’m a big believer in luck. And I’ve heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.’ – Katie Cassidy

‘I’d rather have luck on my side than anything else.’ – Johny Hendricks

‘One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder.’ – Cai Guo-Qiang

‘Luck is a factor that a lot of people underestimate.’ – Clarence Seedorf

‘I always believe that luck and faith will be on my side more than the other side.’ – Vincent Kompany

‘It was a stroke of luck when I worked in ‘Agneepath.’ It was a great role, something different for me.’ – Rishi Kapoor

‘It’s kind of a lost art form, the musical, in a way, so when ‘La La Land’ came around, I couldn’t believe my luck. I just felt like I needed someone to keep on pinching me ’cause not only was it a chance to make a musical but to work with Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.’ – Jessica Rothe

”The Joy Luck Club’ is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom – and bursting into tears after the screening!’ – Jessica Henwick

‘Depending on who we’re playing, it’s just kind of, like, a little starstruck. You know, because these are guys that… I’m playing against Tom Brady or Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, guys like that that I’ve been watching since high school, that’s been doing crazy things.’ – Deshaun Watson

‘Crazy things happen in this sport, and you have to be ready. And for me, luck is when preparation meets opportunity.’ – Kamaru Usman

‘I don’t know why I was lucky enough to have people in my community take me in. To be able to continue school. Or why I was lucky enough to find work or go to college. I do know that kind of luck is one in a million.’ – Diane Guerrero

‘Even Nikki with Sixx:A.M., I wish you the best of luck.’ – John Corabi

‘You become friends with your kids’ friends’ parents. That’s just the way it’s gonna be. And sometimes you luck out, and it’s great.’ – Duff McKagan

‘You will never see me in an ad for fairness creams. I think its outrageous that, even in this day and age, there are products that urge people to be fair or that their luck depends on the colour of their skin.’ – Shweta Tripathi

‘I’m very happy to have been a player who played for Arsenal, because the fans were always great to me – the manager, everyone, the players – and if I can just wish them the best of luck. They know, no matter what happened, they will always be in my heart because I love the club.’ – Emmanuel Adebayor

‘I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.’ – Fabinho

‘Sometimes you need luck to score.’ – Georginio Wijnaldum

‘I’ve been lucky, but I have earned that luck.’ – Xabi Alonso

‘If you have luck on your side and are strong mentally, you can succeed in Europe.’ – Park Ji-sung

‘This is the World Cup, and you need all the elements in place: a good coach, luck, and a cohesive team unit are fundamental requirements.’ – Gabriel Batistuta

‘As a committed Whovian, I cannot believe my luck in joining the Twelfth Doctor for one of his inaugural adventures. My only worry is that they’ll make me leave the set when I’m not filming.’ – Ben Miller

‘Luck is something you find, or you go for it.’ – Thiago Alcantara

‘I wouldn’t attribute everything to luck. I think I am very hardworking, and nothing discounts hard work for anything.’ – Mithila Palkar

‘For whatever reason, luck and word of mouth – my comedy career couldn’t have started better. I went to Edinburgh, selling out this 300-seater just because I got the right place, right time, right venue, right buzz, right reviews early on.’ – Tim Minchin

‘Winning the championship is more than 50% driver. It’s probably 60% driver, 40% car. I don’t really know where luck fits in there – over the course of a season, everybody catches their breaks.’ – Dale Earnhardt Jr.

‘I think success is what you make of it – of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.’ – Ekta Kapoor

‘Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you’re practicing, whether that’s medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘I don’t attribute any ‘luck’ to ‘Bol Bachchan”s success. It was an entertaining commercial film which was bound to do well, and I guess I have the knack of picking up such universally appealing, fun masala movies which turn to be successful.’ – Asin

‘An actor is always looking for something. When your luck improves, trends change, you get one of those roles that do very well, sometimes even your worst work becomes a super success. So one can never predict what will happen tomorrow.’ – Bobby Deol

‘I dropped out of school to play poker, and at 21, I moved from Toronto to try my luck as a pro in Vegas. I ate the typical meat-heavy diet of most poker players in the ’90s: burgers and steak, along with French fries, mash, and a bucket-load of wine, beer, and vodka. There was nothing fresh in my diet, and I felt terrible.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business – in fact, in any walk of life.’ – AB de Villiers

‘I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn’t look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I’ve been given, I’ve taken.’ – Andrew Robertson

‘If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.’ – Jupp Heynckes

‘I don’t believe in luck.’ – Ashlyn Harris

‘A luck shot is one of those guys who has no form.’ – Robert Horry

‘I don’t believe in luck.’ – Tom Herman

‘Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man’s world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.’ – Mamie Van Doren

‘I don’t believe in luck. I don’t believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.’ – Bobby Bones

‘More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn’t make you good, doesn’t make you valuable, doesn’t make you wise.’ – Charles Murray

‘To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I’m here to say that it’s possible.’ – Jimmy O. Yang

‘I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.’ – Shraddha Srinath

‘It’s a combination of how much efforts you put in, how much you’re working on a daily basis on your goals and it also has to do with a bit of luck. It’s difficult but you’ve to be very patient. The main thing is perseverance.’ – Anupriya Goenka

‘I don’t think it’s fair to say the standard of English coaching is bad. It’s more about pathway: how you can get a break and then progress from there. Even at the lowest levels there is impatience now, so you need a bit of luck in terms of the owner or chairman that you work with.’ – Graham Potter

‘You can be good at comedy, which means you’ll be given spots, but beyond that it is luck that pushes you to the next level. There are loads of brilliant comedians who haven’t had the breaks, and plenty of average comedians who have.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘Although it was common in our culture to complain a lot – about friends, relatives, business partners, bad luck, and the general cluelessness of non-Jews – we were not permitted to complain that anti-Semitism and discrimination were standing in our way.’ – Amy Wax

‘You have to ride your luck a bit, you have to take opportunities when they come.’ – George Groves

‘The Australians are a weird bunch – until the cricket starts they’re really friendly, saying ‘good luck’ all the time, but the moment the cricket begins they have a real go at you.’ – Nasser Hussain

‘I found my luck in Leipzig. We achieved the goal of playing internationally much faster than we had intended. There are certainly worse destinies than being coach of such a team.’ – Ralph Hasenhuttl

‘That’s football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn’t.’ – John McGinn

‘I had the luck with Germany. If they hadn’t allowed us to come in I don’t know where we would’ve gone or where we could go. I never ask about that. My mum said: ‘Germany is our second home’ and it’s true. Germany gave us their open hands.’ – Dejan Lovren

‘If you make your own luck then I don’t seem to be very good at it.’ – Nico Hulkenberg

‘Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck – it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.’ – Ashraf Ghani

‘I feel like I’ve had a fantastic life and career with music, and I’ve worked very hard, but maybe I’ve had a bit of luck along the way.’ – Steve Harris

‘If I have luck and keep working and the puzzle comes together, maybe one day I will drive an F1 car.’ – Robert Kubica

‘I don’t believe in getting lucky, I never have – luck is actually being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when it arises because you have the skill set you need and the drive and determination to do it.’ – Drew Scott

‘I have to perform every time I’m in the car, and show that I’m capable, and I need a little bit of timing and luck to come together.’ – Susie Wolff

‘You need luck, you need your key players, you need to be in the best shape, you need all of that to be champions.’ – Ronald Koeman

‘Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens – when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results – we think: ‘How lucky!’ But we don’t usually acknowledge all the times when things just… fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.’ – Marc Randolph

‘When entrepreneurs talk about their success, they rarely talk about luck. I think that’s because most of them think the concept denigrates the hard work and smart thinking they put into their projects. But luck is a huge part of any successful business.’ – Marc Randolph

‘Luck was a huge part of the Netflix story.’ – Marc Randolph

‘The advanced stats are great to look at for my long-term goals and what I’m trying to accomplish. It shows me there is an inherent failure in pitching. The luck involved, the factors you can’t control. You just have to let go of those and focus on the next batter, the next game.’ – Max Scherzer

‘There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.’ – Sudeep

‘There was a period where I did do a lot of television, but the luck of the draw worked in my favour, as they were all shows that were either fan-favourites or cultist things.’ – Tony Todd

‘I have always considered myself as a privileged person from a kind of elite among the lucky ones. So I think we should help all those who have not had the luck I have had, to use my fame to help.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘There are so many actresses who struggle for years to get where I am. It’s luck that’s worked for me more than hard work.’ – Shefali Zariwala

‘There’s no reason but luck that I’m in one of the biggest bands in music.’ – apl.de.ap

‘Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.’ – Derrick Lewis

‘Lots of luck to Paige VanZant. I met her a few times. She’s very nice girl.’ – Joanna Jedrzejczyk

‘Some days it seems I’ve done as much as I can here and I think I’ll go and try my luck in America. But then a call comes from the Globe theatre. They want me for King Lear, playing Edmund.’ – Ashley Walters

‘The first thought is always about making the playoffs. That’s the tough part. And once you get there, only then you can allow yourself to start thinking how you are going to play in the playoffs against other teams. And a lot is left to chance then. There’s an element of luck as well: sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you do not.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘I never underestimate luck and working hard.’ – John Rzeznik

‘After I made ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’ and started taking meetings in Hollywood, I quickly learned that Asian Americans weren’t even in the conversation as a minority, since there wasn’t even a significant enough audience, and especially an audience for Asian American content.’ – Justin Lin

‘There was something so pure about ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’ because money wasn’t the currency. It was passion. The fact we were trying to do something even though no one was asking us to. It meant a lot.’ – Justin Lin

‘If I make a film like ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’ or ‘Finishing the Game,’ I’ll protect it with everything I have.’ – Justin Lin

‘Obviously, you have to have some luck on your side to be successful.’ – Kyle Busch

‘Some people tell you, ‘I’m your good luck charm – I’ve been to eight races in my life and you’ve won six of them’ or something like that. So it’s kind of like, ‘Well, you need to come to more then!’ Other times, fans just want to talk about previous times they’ve met you.’ – Kyle Busch

‘I always look at it this way: You try to create your own luck.’ – P.K. Subban

‘I’m not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there’s an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.’ – Jamie Carragher

‘It’s going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him – he’ll be a great batsman or bowler.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘Preparing well for a tournament sometimes is not enough to win it as you also need a lot of luck in order to win.’ – Jay-Jay Okocha

‘If you don’t have the coach, you’re out of luck. So you can get as many players as you want, if you don’t have a system or you don’t understand what you’re getting ready to do, you’re not going to win.’ – LaVar Ball

‘Instead of just being the person that’s like: ‘Gosh, that’s cool that people are doing stuff and good luck. Do you need me to write a check? I can do that,’ I’ve always just been very hands-on.’ – Jessica Mendoza

‘I date but nothing really long term. I haven’t had much luck. I probably haven’t met the right woman. Most probably know to stay away from me.’ – Jim Norton

‘Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair’s shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist’s luck.’ – A. A. Gill

‘I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy bad luck.’ – Rob Cross

‘Lady Luck is indifferent. She smiles sometimes, and she frowns sometimes.’ – Lonnie Johnson

‘You know, another thing people don’t realize is that there’s a ton of luck in ‘Jeopardy.” – Brad Rutter

‘I think that some actors who make it in Hollywood are very talented. There are some of my heroes, the Meryl Streeps of the world, a lot of people that I love their work but I think a lot of it is luck, looks, strategic alliances and relationships, your agent and a lot of business components.’ – Bill Duke

‘I have always worked hard. The only thing missing was a smile from Lady Luck.’ – Vidyasagar

‘I did try my luck in a handful of commercial entertainers, which came and went so discreetly that they didn’t affect my career.’ – Vivek

‘I see something that I don’t like, I prefer not to participate and say, ‘Look, I’ll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don’t want to be there.” – Carlos Vela

‘You need some luck in life and I have been lucky with God’s help.’ – Masai Ujiri

‘Sir Alex Ferguson sent me a letter wishing me good luck before my fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He also sent me a United shirt, signed by all of the players. It was a really nice touch and typical of the man who has always made himself available to managers in this country whenever they’ve needed advice.’ – Ricky Hatton

‘You know, there’s a lot of luck involved in anybody’s success.’ – Michael Buffer

‘There’s a lot of luck involved in getting married to the right woman.’ – Michael Buffer

‘At 17, I realized that it’s going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.’ – Angad Bedi

‘I don’t wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, ‘this guy’s a star,’ I always say, ‘good luck.” – B. J. Armstrong

‘My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.’ – B. J. Armstrong

‘I always wanted to be a fashion designer, for as long as I can think of. Acting happened by chance, so I call it beginner’s luck, actually. I am planning to carry on for as long as I can.’ – Neha Sharma

‘Even though ‘Luck By Chance’ is set in the film industry, the lead characters are people you know and see, but they are not your friends.’ – Zoya Akhtar

‘I had such a run of bad luck that you lose faith that good things are going to happen any more. I still don’t answer the door because I went through so long expecting it to be a bailiff.’ – Jack Monroe

‘Don’t ask me the secret to a good long-term relationship – I have no idea! Honestly, I think it’s just luck.’ – Fiona Bruce

‘I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It’s not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.’ – Jodie Turner-Smith

‘I did work incredibly hard but I think there’s a certain element of luck.’ – Lisa Stansfield

‘There must be something about me and teeth when I’m filming abroad, I don’t have a lot of luck.’ – Keith Allen

‘Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he’s making the right moves and making the right reads and he’s getting lucky.’ – Phil Hellmuth

‘There’s more luck in poker. Getting good at golf requires a certain amount of physical aptitude. Both take a lot of patience. Both require knowing when to gamble – either with a big bluff or a high-risk shot. Both can be infuriating.’ – Phil Hellmuth

‘Listen – we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we’re also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It’s not just luck.’ – Ray J

‘I’m always making tracks. I find that when you make tons of tracks, you stumble upon genius. You can’t always turn the drum machine on and right away there’s a hot track. Sometimes you luck out. But it can take a lot of time between thinking about the artist, listening to music for inspiration or going to clubs.’ – Scott Storch

‘There’s a reason why you attach the luck factor to your hard work. You work hard in every film, but there’s always that one film that comes at the right time and does the best for you.’ – Jaideep Ahlawat

‘I think I would make a much better president than Ted Cruz, and with a little luck maybe I’ll get more votes, but I’m not counting on it.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘It’s not 64 squares. It’s a battlefield. There’s no luck, there’s no dice. It’s just you and your opponent.’ – Daniel Naroditsky

‘With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You’re totally in control of your own fate. There’s no luck factor. It’s you and the pieces.’ – Daniel Naroditsky

‘We don’t appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘I would like to wish Harry Redknapp the best of luck filling my old seat in the dugout at Queen’s Park Rangers. It was one of the achievements of my managerial career getting QPR back into the Premier League after a 15-year absence and I would be very sad to see them go back down after all the hard work the players, staff and myself put in.’ – Neil Warnock

‘Luckily for me, Hereford restarted their youth team. I trained a few times with the first team before my first stroke of luck, when the club’s youth team coach Pete Beadle, someone who knew me well, became the first-team manager.’ – Jarrod Bowen

‘I never would have thought that in a million years that this would have happened, being in WWE and being in a Muppet film. But for some stroke of luck I guess they both did and I’m loving both of them.’ – Hornswoggle

‘As luck would have it, my voice is best when it’s kind of blown out.’ – Eric Carmen

‘I do not like to talk about luck.’ – Joao Moutinho

‘Do you think the UFC is going to owe you a favor when you step up on short notice when nobody else is doing it? There’s a reason a whole bunch of us aren’t doing it. If you want to be that scapegoat, and think that the UFC’s going to owe you one, good luck with that. Let me know how that goes.’ – Aljamain Sterling

‘Shyam Benegal’s ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur,’ ‘Luck’ and, of course, ‘Raavan’ changed things for me.’ – Ravi Kishan

‘There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It’s hard in the sense that it’s very uncertain.’ – Rhea Chakraborty

‘For me, to get break in ‘Jai Ho’ was a challenge and my journey after that depends on my work and luck so, I think blessing of my parents has helped to reach this stage and I am really fortunate that Salman Khan lifted me from one level and helped me to reach another level.’ – Daisy Shah

‘Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.’ – Daisy Shah

‘After working for a whole year without a break, I made Rs 80,000, and took a loan of 50,000 from my parents. I bought a car, and as luck would have it, it got stolen.’ – Binnu Dhillon

‘The thing about Champions League football is it can turn on an instant. You can have a very good, solid team over the course of the season, but the Champions League is more like the World Cup, where your fate can be decided in a second and you need a bit of luck too.’ – Javier Zanetti

‘I always had dreams, my whole life, of being somebody special. Someone out in the world that everybody knew of and everybody liked. Somebody unique. Even when I was down on my luck, in my head I still had those dreams.’ – Michael Sorrentino

‘In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘Sometimes luck is on your side, and everything works.’ – Gael Monfils

‘Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.’ – Satyadev Kancharana

‘I told my boss, ‘Thank you – but I’m not going to be here tomorrow. I’m going to pursue my career as a boxer.’ I remember the woman actually laughed at me. She giggled and said, ‘Boxing? Well, good luck.” – Anthony Yarde

‘It’s all luck in this business, and it’s not a kind business at times.’ – Rita Tushingham

‘In this business, you need to be in the right place at the right time, have luck and the courage to do the job.’ – Rita Tushingham

‘In the film industry, 60 per cent is luck and 40 per cent is availing the right opportunities.’ – Jaya Bachchan

‘The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it’s a make or miss league.’ – Erik Spoelstra

‘I’ve had 10 major operations. Four back surgeries. A hip replacement. A broken neck… But I consider myself lucky. I keep thinking after all these surgeries, my luck is going to run out.’ – Bruno Sammartino

‘When Diego won the World Cup in 1986, perhaps he had the luck that Messi has not had. Diego had very good teammates and things went well.’ – Mario Kempes

‘Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.’ – Sam Hinkie

‘Making a breakthrough at the big clubs, a lot of it is down to luck with your timing.’ – Danny Drinkwater

‘I do not hate Andrew Luck.’ – Skip Bayless

‘I think you always need some luck when you score big runs.’ – Steve Smith

‘I don’t believe in luck.’ – Zico

‘I told my parents about my musical dreams. They let me try my luck.’ – Ankit Tiwari

‘To my bad luck, my first schedule for ‘Natasaarvabhowma’ was in Kolkata and I was not really introduced to the language.’ – Anupama Parameswaran

‘It eventually comes down to the right timing and right scripts. Some may have two to three releases a year, some may have just one – luck changes with every Friday release.’ – Sunny Singh

‘Along with hard work, you also need luck by your side.’ – Sunny Singh

‘I have been offered several Bengali films. Due to destiny and good luck, ‘Noukadubi’ will be my first.’ – Riya Sen

‘If I don’t write things down, good luck. I was talking to my mom last night. I take another call, tell her I’ll call right back, 10 minutes. Think I remembered?’ – Chris Pronger

‘I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn’t doing so well – I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said ‘wear this chain for good luck… ‘ and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.’ – Quinton Jackson

‘It’s amazing how quickly a defined jawline can turn your luck around.’ – Sean Evans

‘Maybe this was my luck that I was in Munich the only one with a look like this, the only one with an image like this. But in the States, there is a lot of more competition.’ – Rob Pilatus

‘What our generation hopefully is doing is not believing in that so-called bad luck that Canada has with figure skating at the Olympics.’ – Scott Moir

‘You just need to go in, try your best and you just need a bit of luck at the same time.’ – Dwight Gayle

‘We were shooting an outdoor scene where I run to get into a car. As I did so, someone closed the door on my leg. With severe pain, I continued to shoot after applying a pain relief cream. But as luck could have it, someone slammed the door on the same leg, yet again, and at the same spot! Next, I come to know, I have a fracture!’ – Mimi Chakraborty

‘Of course, ‘Kahaani’ is my huge break. Lady Luck smiled at me.’ – Saswata Chatterjee

‘I’m hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same time, there’s no question that I entered the market at the right moment.’ – Leigh Bardugo

‘I am not going to complain about the life I’ve had so far. In Africa, there are people that live in more difficult situations. I’ve had the luck of having parents who work and have helped me out, they’ve done everything possible for me to get here.’ – Eric Bailly

‘As a child I started working. Again I had luck with my father’s help financially, but I also had to work. I had a programme after training in the afternoon in which I would go in front of my house to do various things and the phone boxes was something I did to earn some money.’ – Eric Bailly

‘I’ve got the luck of having Jose Mourinho to learn from.’ – Eric Bailly

‘Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I’d try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.’ – Alan Carr

‘If I wasn’t a footballer, I don’t know what I would have been. But that was through sheer determination, a good family and lots of luck.’ – Dion Dublin

‘Maybe I’ve managed to keep my head above water through luck.’ – Fred MacMurray

‘That’s the challenge you take as a player, coach, whatever… executive… that you’re gonna have to perform at a high level, whether that’s by luck or whatever, by design, it has to get up there, otherwise it’s not gonna be the most pleasant experience, but it’s a challenge. And I think everybody would love a challenge like that.’ – Mike D’Antoni

‘When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘Call it my good luck or my open-minded nature; I never felt that I was overshadowed by my co-stars.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.’ – Greg Olsen

‘I’m a very superstitious person. I come from a long line of superstitious people, so it’s not going anywhere. For instance, we have this thing on our movies where if one of the key personnel gets a haircut in the middle of the movie, it’s bad luck. I swear by that.’ – Anna Boden

‘Luck doesn’t happen. You create it.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘I know there are people who say I’m lucky because it looks like I’m not doing anything. But it can’t be luck this often.’ – Bob Baffert

‘When people say something to you, they’re projecting what they actually feel inside, so you just have to wish them luck, wish them well, send them love.’ – Jordyn Woods

‘I do know one thing – while success has a lot to do with hard work, luck also plays an important role.’ – Shamita Shetty

‘For a season, I would say driver is 40%, car/team is 40% and then 20% is luck when it comes to winning a championship.’ – Denny Hamlin

‘My losses were based on things I did in training, and luck also plays out during the fight.’ – Fabricio Werdum

‘Parenting is a sensitive, controversial subject, so I say to all the mommas and the daddies of the world God bless and good luck!’ – Cynthia Bailey

‘After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of ‘Oh, that was luck.’ You think that doesn’t get to you?’ – Jessica Andrade

‘Luck is important.’ – Kei Nishikori

‘I think there’s an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.’ – Vic Reeves

‘What is a ‘lucky punch?’ Who do these people think I was trying to punch in the face if not Georges? Seriously – where did the luck come into it? I got him hurt and didn’t let him off the hook.’ – Matt Serra

‘Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?’ – Matt Serra

‘In the Olympics, you only get one opportunity to bring it all together. If you don’t, better luck in four years.’ – Eddy Alvarez

‘When COVID-19 first hit, we thought everyone could use a little luck and created a hoodie for a few friends with our signature good luck motif. We were blown away by the social media response and now the sweatshirts regularly sell out on our website.’ – Jennifer Meyer

‘I know this sounds a bit mad, but I always take a tiny green cut-out leprechaun – about the size of a fingernail – with me. My mother gave it to me because we’re Irish. She’s adamant that it brings good luck.’ – Carol Drinkwater

‘Captains realise over a period that if they plan right and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, luck attaches itself to their side.’ – Anil Kumble

‘I have always been an advocate of market forces and players being paid whatever clubs are prepared to pay them. Good luck to them.’ – Robbie Savage

‘I am a fan of the Colts and Andrew Luck.’ – Jason Collins

‘It is better to be lucky. But… luck comes when you are ready.’ – Jim Harbaugh

‘Mathematicians always hoped their field was the one human endeavor where reason would prevail over woke madness. But no such luck. The Mathematical Association of America has succumbed.’ – Miranda Devine

‘I believe you create your own luck.’ – Dino Morea

‘Call it my bad luck or whatever it is, after ‘Pyaar Impossible,’ people were offering me nonsense films. I was offered roles of no consequence.’ – Dino Morea

‘We had a neighbour in Ramsgate called Bill and he was the kindest old man you ever did meet. We loved Bill. He gave my brother a kids’ tool set and my brother could not believe his luck.’ – Lou Sanders

‘Luck is very strange. I’m lucky in that I met the guy who said, Go to the University of Chicago, and I hitchhiked there.’ – Elaine May

‘In this industry, everything works on luck. And it is a lot tougher for outsiders like me.’ – Prachi Desai

‘I did the first TV dance show six months before they ever had ‘American Bandstand.’ But my luck was that the owner of the station said, ‘Who wants to see a bunch of teenagers dance? Get that show off the air.’ – Soupy Sales

‘To win a great title, you always need a bit of luck.’ – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

‘You always need a bit of luck with transfers.’ – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

‘I’m not called Seve Ballesteros, I’m called Seve Mulligan because I’ve had the luck to be given a mulligan, which in golf is a second chance.’ – Seve Ballesteros

‘In the end, you have to have luck and luck comes to those who fight.’ – Seve Ballesteros

‘I am a defender, I know, but I think to myself that I could score more goals for Liverpool than I already did. Maybe sometimes I need a little bit of luck, maybe sometimes I have to do something different when I go forward. I’m not desperate about it.’ – Joel Matip

‘Mbappe is unbelievably fast, really good. To stop him, you have to do it as a team because alone, good luck!’ – Antonio Rudiger

‘People can bring me down all they want, but try to get on a cover. Try to get in a magazine. Good luck.’ – Spencer Pratt

‘I have been lucky and I feel blessed that I have been among those actors who have been surviving even after 38 years of work and still being at the top of the game, so to speak in their category, and to be able to do so many varieties of work, it is sheer luck.’ – Mohnish Bahl

‘After Karol Bagh got over, I thought ‘Let me go to Mumbai and try my luck.” – Sargun Mehta

‘I always give my best also in Premier League games, sometimes I have more luck.’ – Kai Havertz

‘I lost my club through a series of circumstances and bad luck. The whole banking system collapsing and my foolish bravery didn’t help.’ – Simon Jordan

‘The Premier League is very hard to win. You have to be a bit lucky too. But you also make your own luck.’ – Owen Hargreaves

‘For three years, from 1992-1994, I tried my luck as an actor. And then, wondering if I had a face to match my aspirations, I decided to explore direction.’ – Samuthirakani

‘Every day you wake up is a new opportunity to make your own luck.’ – Alisyn Camerota

‘After us, Barca had the luck, which in reality is not luck but work, to combine three things: a young coach with new ideas, the best player in history and the best generation of Spanish football born precisely at Barca.’ – Deco

‘I’ve been a serious player all my life in my diet, sleeping, everything, but the luck of coming to clubs that win is also important.’ – Marcel Desailly

‘When the luck is not there you lose confidence and confidence is one of the most important things for a footballer.’ – Marcel Desailly

‘The goals I have, I know if I work hard and of course with some faith and luck, are goals that I can achieve.’ – Kingsley Coman

‘It is obvious that star kids will get a preference, but because of that people can’t stop working or trying their luck.’ – Rimi Sen

‘I always had bad luck with collecting cards. I never got the ones I was after. I would open the pack looking for Michael Jordan and end up with some guy I already had off the end of the bench.’ – David Lee

‘I just need to stay away from bikes and bad luck.’ – Chris Sale

‘Buddy Holly’ by Weezer is one of my fav ever songs, which I think is pretty unexpected? ‘Good Luck’ by Basment Jaxx is also an absolute fav, and ‘Often’ by The Weeknd was – hilariously – my Year 11 school trip anthem with me and my girls.’ – Maisie Peters

‘At first, Amitabh’s films didn’t do too well. Then, luck and tide favoured him. He began to rise and became a star and then a superstar.’ – Shatrughan Sinha

‘College sacks are a lot of skill and a lot of luck. In the pros, it’s a lot more skill.’ – Nick Bosa