Doyle Brunson Quotes

It's better to be lucky than good.

I could never be so lucky again

It's better sometimes to be lucky than good.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

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

I'd rather be lucky than good.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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.

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

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

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

I have been very, very lucky.

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

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

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

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

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

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

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.