Claud Cockburn Quotes

I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.

I feel like I got hit with a lucky stick.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

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

Fate has blessed me.

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.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

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

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

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

I'd rather be lucky than good.

I am a lucky, lucky person.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

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.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I'm incredibly lucky.

Few people realize that luck is created.

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.

Good luck needs no explanation.

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