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.
Care and diligence bring luck.
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.
I’ve got the luck of having Jose Mourinho to learn from.
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.
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.
There is no formula to enter Bollywood. It’s a lot to do with luck.
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.
I’m very conscious of the luck I’ve had. It’s important to have this in your mind and remember it.
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.
Everything in life is luck.
You need luck, you need your key players, you need to be in the best shape, you need all of that to be champions.
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.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
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.
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.
I want to win because I am the fastest out there instead, not by luck; then it means a lot more to you.
Andrew Luck is a great quarterback.
If I make a film like ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’ or ‘Finishing the Game,’ I’ll protect it with everything I have.
I’ve been lucky, but I have earned that luck.
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.
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.
You have to ride your luck a bit, you have to take opportunities when they come.
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.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
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.
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.
Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
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.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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.
In the Olympics, you only get one opportunity to bring it all together. If you don’t, better luck in four years.
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.
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.
Good luck needs no explanation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I still have horrible luck with girls.
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.
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.
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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!
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.
You can’t just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
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.
I was satisfied with my role in ‘Luck,’ and I am proud of the film.
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.
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.
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.
I did try my luck in a handful of commercial entertainers, which came and went so discreetly that they didn’t affect my career.
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.
When you have fast cars and bad luck, it’s a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, there’s a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
