Drew Scott Quotes

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck.

My only objective is to train hard and hopefully get a chance to play, and take it with both hands.

Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot.

Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you're practicing, whether that's medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.

I've always said just give me an opportunity and I'm going to make the most of it.

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.

You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.