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• The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Hurt, Days Off

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• It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.

  Steve Coppell

  Soccer, Football, Kevin

  "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

  Livy

  Peace, War, Endeavor

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• In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

  Robert Kuttner

  Practice, Outcomes, Deals

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.16, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivation, School, Play

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  Henry Sy

  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

  Joey Logano

  Believe, Thinking, I Believe

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• 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

  Goal, Special, World

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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Doe, Complaining, Know How

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• One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

  Alexander Smith

  Good Luck, Listening, Hug

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.116

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• People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, People, World

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.124, BookBaby

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• Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

  Doug Stanton

  Running, Men, Doe

  Doug Stanton (2003). “In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Knowing, Wish, Matter

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• 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

  Black And White, Looks, Oscars

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• For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

  Fabrice Muamba

  Dictionary

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  I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

  Urban Meyer

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Luck is when determination meets opportunity

  Richard Branson

  Determination, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Dec 6, 2014

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• Your luck is how you treat people.

  Bette Davis

  People, Treats

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• Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Blessing, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 26, 2011

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• I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Thinking, People

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• British teams bring me good luck.

  Andrea Pirlo

  Team, Good Luck, British

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• You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

  Henry Moore

  Force

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• If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.

  Bruce Bochy

  Good Luck, Would Be, Months

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