Walter Alston Quotes

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

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.

I am a great believer in luck.

Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

'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.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.

It's crazy, it really is, to just be fortunate enough to continue to be in positions to win, to be playing well, to be healthy.

I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win 'em all.