Ryne Sandberg Quotes

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.

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.

What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.

What's got badly, goes badly.

Iraq is the wrong war and the wrong time in the wrong place.

What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

I thought 'Heller' was a very bad decision.

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

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

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

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.