Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.