Do you remember the pony-tailed Patrick Rafter, the benevolent Australian tennis Grand slam winner, who donated he entire prize money of a mens' singles champion in a grand slam event to a children's welfare project? He was so modest that when asked to comment about the reason for his victory, he said - it is not my victory alone. Luck has played a big part. Why my big rival will make some mistake in crucial junctures of the match? Is he that player? It is bad luck for him he made mistakes and good luck for me that I made fewer mistake. So I won.

I admire Rafter's values and thinking. If you think that way, probably luck is the bigger factor than any other single faculty.

But for me, luck is just tantalizingly away from me. When three will be selected, I stand a very close fourth. When, I give up hope and retire from the competition, I come to know later, I was front runner. When I thought I could impress some one, it was found true to the extent that some one appeared in the ...more

45 % rest is hardwork.

99 % effort and 1 % luck.

You call it luck; I call it God's blessings. So many times and in so many occasions I have felt it.

Not much. It is a psychological booster. Those who depend on luck, always fail. When some one fails after efforts, he consoles himself by saying bad luck, and then tries to forget. The word gives solace, so we all use it.

The way air provides the lifting force to an aeroplane.

Luck supports ur efforts 10%