Ron Rice Quotes

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Nobody gets as many chances as I got.

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

I'm very lucky and very fortunate to have survived and to still be working after 45 years.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

There's a lot of times when I shouldn't have been here. I go, 'Man, I'm blessed.' I've had people shoot at me and had all kinds of stuff happen, and somehow I'm still here, and other people are not.

Perseverance brings good luck.

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed - thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets.

I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

Luck whines; labor whistles.