Lefty Gomez Quotes

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

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

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

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

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

I guess I got lucky with my sound.

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.

Good luck needs no explanation.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

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.

For years, kids have been asking me what's the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you're lucky, everything works. I've been lucky.

You know, there's a lot of luck involved in anybody's success.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

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

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

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

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

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

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.

I feel like I got hit with a lucky stick.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.