Jimmy Doolittle Quotes

It's better to be lucky than good.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

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.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

Sometimes you need luck to score.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

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

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

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.

I feel like I got hit with a lucky stick.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

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

I am a great believer in luck.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

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.