Luckiest Quotations

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.

When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.

I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

I really loved working on 'Laguna Beach,' and I'd do it all over again. I'm one of the luckiest kids in the world, but I thought it was going to be a documentary about kids in high school, and they exaggerated all this drama. When it came out, it was this weird thing. People feel that they know you.

The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.

I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.

I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for a living what you did as a kid. You make in a year what I made in my life and, if you let it go to your head I'll kick you with my cowboy boots on.

My job is never boring. It's always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I'm the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.

I have been the luckiest guy in the world, because I had the same deal in high school, college and the pros, ... We won championships every time. With all the success my teams had, I can't complain about anything.

I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Scotty, I couldn't take a dime from you. He said he was the luckiest man in the world. I'm in a position to help people. You don't know how gratifying it is to see somebody's dreams come true. I know a lot of people and I can help Tyler and I don't want a dime. He said someday I want him to give back the way I am.

I had to talk to one of my players, because we needed some luck. I talked to the luckiest guy I know on Earth --Kirk 'Woody' Rueter. I called Woody and said, 'Woody, I need some of the Woody luck.' He said he sent it to us.

I don't belong here, ... What am I doing here? It's crazy, absolutely crazy. I'm the luckiest man in the world today, believe me

I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.

I have always considered myself one of the luckiest people to be able to represent the people of New Hampshire in the Senate, and this just confirms that,

I looked over and he was jamming on this thing, and we were wearing the place out! How cool is this? That's James Burton playing, that's the master over there. ... I'm one of the luckiest guys around to get to do this.

I am incredibly happy. I may well be the luckiest man alive. To be so in love with someone who is so perfect for me. It's just hard to imagine that I'm not going to wake up.

That era was very special, so to be part of it and to have lived it... people look at me and say, "You're the luckiest guy in the world." And I just have to say, "I know.

I think the football coaches for Iowa and Iowa State would tell you they are some of the luckiest people in the world to have the job they have, ... Win, lose or draw, I'm sure they believe it's a great life. And that's how I feel about my job.

Our CEO, Ron Forman, must be the luckiest man out there and he was lucky this time. The trees fell the right way.

I think I can speak for my teammates and for you fans that we all feel that we were the luckiest people on the planet to get to play and watch Kirby Puckett.

Usually, the best defense wins. Today, the luckiest defense won. Their defense played better than ours.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home

The smartest or luckiest thing UAL did was stay in bankruptcy for three years. Had they rushed to confirm a plan, they would likely have needed a return visit to Chapter 11.

When You find that person you call your truest friend, know that at that moment you are the luckiest person alive.

I've told Jim that our commitment to him is for as long as he was alive, which I hope is a long time. We want Jimmy to conduct as much as he is able and willing to do so here. I think the Met is the luckiest opera house in the world to have him as its music director and I hope that he will be at the center of its artistic life for the foreseeable future. It would be a terrible blow for me and my plans if he was not here.

I've never been this lucky in my entire life. 2005 has been the luckiest year by far.

I've been able to play one of the richest characters in the history of television. Why would anybody think that I would be tired of hearing about it? The only thing I could say is that I feel like I'm the luckiest guy on the face of the globe,

I'm certainly not the luckiest man in the world but I'm one of them. I don't think I could have spent my life doing anything I enjoy more.

I may well be the luckiest man alive.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. These kids are so much fun to be around.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to coach a group of guys like this.

I'm the luckiest man in the world right now.

I must be one of the luckiest people in the world - I have a profession where I can play dress-up and make-believe, and I wasn't enjoying it.

I'm healthy, I've got a wonderful wife, happy kids, money in the bank. I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world.

It's perfect timing. I couldn't ask for a better scenario in my life. I'm the luckiest man in the world right now.

I guess you could say that meeting Jane was the luckiest day of my life.

He's probably one of the happiest and he feels like he's one of the luckiest guys in the world.

So St. Patrick?s Day is not the luckiest day, ... I?d like to stay here.

For a moment in time on September 9, 1972 I was the luckiest person in the world. I was standing on the awards podium, inside the track and field stadium at the Olympic Games in Munich Germany, gazing through a blur of mild shock and tears, trying to focus on the American flag.

They have asked me to come here and be an extra set of eyes and an extra set of ears to how things are done in the organization. And I welcome the opportunity to find out what this business is like. I always wanted to know, ?How is the game played on the other side?? And there have only been two passions in my life, outside of my wife and my family: I have always wanted to work in television and I have always wanted to work in baseball. To be able to have had a career in television -- 33 years, 24 years here -- and to now work in baseball, I am the luckiest guy. The smile hasn?t left my face.

I told him he was the luckiest human being in the world,

I told him he was the luckiest human being in the world. He just said, 'Coach, I love you and thank you for bringing me to Texas.

According to the results of our experience, unfortunately I cannot confirm that Skibbereen is the luckiest town. It was absolutely no different to Dublin.

Its been a crazy ride. A couple of tournaments ago I wasn't even supposed to be here. But I got a Major and everything is coming full circle now. It's a nerve wracking situation. I just got the luckiest break of all time on that last shot.

How many of those do we get and delete? Was that not the luckiest thing in the world?

I feel I was the luckiest guy in the world to be part of this show,

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. Betty is to blame for it all. Whatever I am or have accomplished, I owe to Betty. I ain't got no sense. My wife made me what I am. In other words -- local girl makes good in the city -- makes good man.