Eddie Slovik Quotes

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

Misfortune was my god.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

Bad things happen sometimes.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

Some people think I have a death wish. I don't have one. I just make mistakes. Bad things happen to good people.

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

the best people have the rottenest luck