“I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 158)
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“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”
On his election to Académie Française (1955) Variant translation: Of course I believe in luck. How else does one explain the successes of one's enemies?
“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”
Extreme Championship Wrestling. September 4, 2007.
To Armando Estrada when he wished CM Punk good luck in his "Last Chance" match with John Morrison.
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Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 18)
“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”
Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
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Variant: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Variant: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”
Lloyd George is portrayed as saying this, as George Nathaniel Curzon was making a complaint against Raymond Poincaré in the Turkish TV series, Kurtuluş (1994), but no prior citation of such a statement has yet been found.
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