Unlucky Quotations

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.

I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love.

Nelsinho has made a great start to the season and did a fantastic job at Brands Hatch. I must say well done to France and the USA for the good job they did today in qualifying. Nelsinho was a bit unlucky as he got stuck in some traffic in the first sector and should have been higher up as he was very quick in the middle and final sectors. The fact is, though, that this is racing and that's how it goes sometimes. We are still in a very good position for tomorrow and are not too disappointed with third.

Peter was unlucky not to play in round one and then it has been difficult to make a change since, but he will play this week in the ruck and we have got confidence in him because he played well in most of the last 10 games last year.

Last year we had a really exciting playoff experience so you would think that we would again. But we got unlucky in the middle of the season and we dug ourselves in too deep of a hole.

She hit the ball really well on the front side, caught a couple of unlucky breaks and her bunker play was extremely good.

Hall would be unlucky but an all rounder takes out an all rounder.

Giorgio is also looking at opportunities in F1 and Champ Cars next year, ... He's been unlucky this season in GP2 with a lot of mechanical problems, so this is a chance for him to prove himself again at the top level.

I don't think I've done anything wrong. I know that I've brought some very good players to this football club and I know that we've been desperately unlucky in terms of injuries, but I'm sticking at it.

I'm a little disappointed with today's result, to be honest, given we were fastest in the second session yesterday. The engineering crew did an amazing job to get the car back on the track and it's unlucky we were held up by a red flag in the final segment of qualifying, as that was my best lap of the day. The forecast for tomorrow is rain again, so I'm sure we're going to see a lot of action and I look forward to advancing through the field.

He scored two vital goals for us but was unlucky that we had to play him out of position and he should be able to further his career elsewhere.

Joey and J.J. matched up well up front. We were unlucky not to get a second and third.

Mathematically, I could get knocked out, but I'd have to be very unlucky on my part to do that, ... just to try to make sure I don't get that unlucky break.

I think the team showed some pretty good patience. We applied a lot of pressure to their goal line. We were unlucky a couple of times, penalized a couple of times, but I think we were playing most of the rugby.

I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. I mean, so much went wrong; they had everything but locusts on 'Quixote,' it was really, really bad luck.

I thought it would be impossible for somebody to get that unlucky again. So much went wrong; they had everything but locusts.

I was just trying to catch him. He had a little bit of a step on me. I just waited for him to bring the puck over and I went to lift his stick. But he moved his stick and I brought mine up on him. It was unlucky I guess but they made it count.

It is pretty unlucky she could not continue. Winning like this is no fun.

I was not feeling too bad. Andy was in worse shape than me in the fifth. I think I was really unlucky not to break him. His serve all the time was still there.

We were just unlucky today. We had the chances but they just didn't go in. Against a team like that you have to finish those.

We have been unlucky in some races. It is still a good car, very quick. We just need to make sure to get rid of the little problems.

We were unlucky that it didn't end in a tie. This was a game where a tie should have been the result.

We were unlucky to have a third goal disallowed. That could have led us to the quarterfinals.

We hope he's OK. You don't wish this on anybody. ... The athletes are very unlucky and this is not funny for Austria. It's very sad that this happened.

Will has been unbelievably unlucky with injuries and it has been one after another.

That's the way it goes right now. Those are tough to take. The only way is up now. How much more unlucky can we get?

That was an unlucky finish for us, but it really motivated us more than it took away from our motivation. I think it really unified our team even more.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

The fact is we came back. We gifted 15 points to a good team and were unlucky to lose.

We have had a lift from the recent performances and there is a real belief now that we can win games. We were unlucky not to beat Italy and we'll try to do the same against Norway.

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

We are looking at his training schedule, as we do with all the players. He has been extremely unlucky with the trauma injuries he has suffered in the last few years, but we are in an impact sport and there is no way of preventing these things.

We were a little bit lucky today but we were so unlucky in the last race,

We worked a lot harder tonight. The other night, we just plain and simple got outworked and that shouldn't happen, ... We were pretty unlucky to be down 2-0 after one. We stuck to the program, and it worked out.

We don't make any excuses and never will, but we've been a very unlucky football team from an injury standpoint.

We have got a little bit to start with so that's something we will have a chat with tonight in the team meeting. We have been unlucky in the run department so that's an area we will talk about. Previous areas have been quite high scoring venues so lets make sure that we get a decent score.

We saw how hard it is a couple years ago. Unlucky bounce, and they win.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

We got unlucky with Corey getting hurt, I think we got unlucky with a couple of calls. Boom, right back down our throats at the end.

Unlucky 13. I don't know how they're going to determine it. I hate to be in this type of position. I've always been able to determine how it's going to be. Now we have to sit here. It's making me uneasy. I don't like to be in this position.

We started feeling a little bit of pressure and we got anxious and started clearing the ball instead of working it. That goal they got was an unlucky break and that's one thing we need to learn from this.

England were very unlucky and they would have won if they had not missed the penalty,

Either she's got some lucky stars or some unlucky stars, depending on how you look at it.

I started very well but I got unlucky while he scored on almost every ball.

The shot was on without the fine leg. He was unlucky that the ball rolled on to the stumps.

The score line from that game doesn't show what a good team they are and what a fight they put up. They caught some unlucky breaks in that game. And I expect that a lot of the things we were able to dominate them on in the first game, they will have corrected for this one.

You have to have a pretty unlucky day to get caught by us.

Brad Hodge can count himself unlucky not to be included. It is fair to say that the (selectors) were looking for Brad to put together some really big scores in (domestic first-class) cricket to consolidate his position in the test squad but unfortunately that hasn't happened. The decision on the make-up of the fast bowling quartet was not an easy one, given that we are without Glenn McGrath for this series.

Perhaps Anton was a bit unlucky not to get into the senior squad, but he should not let his head drop.

Alicia has been incredibly unlucky to have been struck down with this condition following a breakthrough season in 2004. Regaining her health must be the top priority and Tennis Australia will provide her with any support she needs during this difficult time.

AMD just got unlucky in any number of ways but in the chip business, luck can change very quickly and you can make a lot of money. But it's going to be a tough stock to play and will be very volatile throughout the year.

Sam Cox has had a great season and been unlucky to miss out because he was probably our best centre in pre-season,

Eric didn't pitch that bad. They just hit it in the holes. He was unlucky today.

After the third set, I thought I'm going to win because I felt everything much better. I think he was just pushing the ball back and running left and right. I think I was very unlucky in the fifth set not to get the break in the beginning, then to lose service game after.

In the first round, we had some unlucky bounces and close games that didn't go our way. Today, they had to finish the deal we made, to go undefeated in the second round.

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

I'm going to give myself a B-minus, ... In practice and qualifying I thought I made a lot of progress. But then in the race we got unlucky because we blew a left-front tyre right off the bat. Later in the race I spun when I was trying to get by someone, that was just a rookie mistake, but I managed to save the car and not hit the wall.

I'm going to give myself a B-minus. In practice and qualifying I thought I made a lot of progress. But then in the race we got unlucky because we blew a left-front tire right off the bat. Later in the race I spun when I was trying to get by someone-- that was just a rookie mistake, but I managed to save the car and not hit the wall.

That is something we still have to work out but whoever it is, he is going to be an unlucky man.

It was a disappointing season. I never played on such an unlucky team.

Daniel is unlucky to miss out in this game but after tomorrow there are still two further training sessions before the first ODI at the Telstra Dome on Wednesday. ... We are very pleased to have nominated Brian Lara as our vice-captain. He has tremendous experience and will be able to provide invaluable support to our captain Shaun Pollock.

It's been hard. To have my senior year end like this is obviously pretty disappointing. At the same time, I wanted to be up here today and be here with the guys. ... It's an unlucky break. It's unfortunate, but things happen. Everything happens for a reason. I'm looking for the reason why this happened to me.

I guess we were very unlucky it did hit us.

His contribution has been first-class, and he is unlucky not to have scored more. His presence and his stature has been applauded by all at the club since he arrived.

In the past two years we've had two unlucky years. Globally, storms aren't getting worse, just in the Atlantic.

It was just unlucky that they weren't able to capitalize on the opportunities that we had. It could happen to any team.

These unlucky women had this bacteria hanging around and it climbed up into their uterus and set up housekeeping.

In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place at all.

The kids came out to play today. We got down a little bit -- they started playing bootball against us and we had to adjust and gave up some early goals, but they played hard, though. They started working the ball around and played as a team, they hustled and kept working at it. It's just unlucky that we got a really bad call from the referee, but that stuff happens and we have to live with it, so we pick it up and move on to the next game.

The horses ran well early in the week but we have been unlucky with a few and I really thought this horse would take all of the beating.

This horse has been unlucky a few times and this will probably have done his confidence good.

It's always nice to get a win in conference. We had Geneva and Batavia the first two games, so that was kind of an unlucky draw for us. They're going to beat a lot of teams.

It probably happened in the last shift of overtime and I didn't know about it. All you need is a little bit of a slash and they can break. ... That's the way it goes. I was lucky on my goal and unlucky on the penalty shot.

It's true we've been unlucky so far this year but I'm not worried because we're only five points behind the leader and there are many more rallies to go,

I told them I'd rather be unlucky at the beginning of the season, than at the end of the season.

They got the early power-play goal, which was unlucky on a deflection, and we maybe panicked a little bit. When you're panicking and not playing with a lot of jump, that's not a good combination to have against a hard-working Minnesota team.

We missed several key players at the tournament but should have done better. We were a bit unlucky in the end as we went out on goal difference and Senegal got through even though we had beaten them.

About three of the kicks tonight, when I hit them I thought they were good. I got a little unlucky and they went right or left. The last one tonight, I thought I hit it pretty good and when I looked up I knew I was probably going to need a little bit of luck right there.

It looks like we've drawn the unlucky card again.

If Fernando keeps finishing behind us it is not possible to catch him any more, but we will do everything we can as a team to keep fighting and we were very unlucky today. We had a perfect race and it was unfortunate for the team what happened in the last few laps because we could have had a one-two and we deserved it. I was happy with the car but we deserved to have both cars on the podium.

He's not 100 percent. First it's the ankle, now it's leg cramps. He's been a little unlucky this year.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

Thank goodness for all of the things you are not!Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot,and left all alone in some punkerish placelike a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.Thats why I say "Duckie!don't grumble! don't stew!some critters are much-much,oh, ever so much-much,so muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.