Quotes About Luck

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

I've never had staph in my life. Knock on wood, I never will.

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.

Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

I've been extremely lucky in terms on injury. Very few injuries over the course of, this is the beginning of my 16th year. I know a lot of guys that have had a lot shorter careers and a lot more injuries, so I knock on wood every day.

I just like the word 'serendipity.'

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

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.

You can win the lottery but you need to buy the ticket first. And in life, you can get lucky but you need to work hard and be ready first.

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!

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.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

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.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!