Casey Stengel Quotes

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

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.

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

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Bad things happen sometimes.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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

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

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

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

As ill-luck would have it.

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

Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I’m sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes…Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Maybe you'll get lucky." I said bleakly, lurching on my feet. "Maybe I'll get hit by a truck on my way back.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.