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As unlucky as he is to have such a tragic injury, he is so lucky that the injuries are where they are. – Christopher Vincent	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He was very unlucky, the only thing that I am sure is he is going to win not one — much more than one. So I wish him all the best and a very fast recovery. – Rafael Nadal	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The court's decision effectively closes the federal courts to many prisoners with extremely serious constitutional ineffective trial counsel claims simply because they were unlucky enough to have incompetent lawyers at every stage of state court proceedings. – Robert Loeb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think I was creating before, too. I got chances but maybe a little bit unlucky, didn’t bounce my way, if you look at my goal, it hit the (defenseman’s) stick and went five-hole. Luck turned a little bit. – Andre Burakovsky	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even if you count all the distances and judge points from the unlucky ones on today’s competition, we should still be first so it’s still great. – Peter Prevc	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off, your employment here is terminated, effective immediately. – Vishal Garg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
She did n’t think she ’d catch anything because of the date, but I said not everyone can be that unlucky. – Hannah Truscott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
From what I’ve been told nandrolone is high … pig offal has high concentrations of nandrolone. This food truck that I happened to go to that night – I’ve eaten there a lot before – and this food truck serves pig offal as part of their menu and I think I happened to ingest this hormone and 10 hours later, at the peak of when it’s supposed to be in your body and your digesting it, I happened to get tested and honestly it’s a very unlucky series of events, i’m kinda blown away by what happened and I can't believe I’m going through this as a clean athlete. – Susan Hazzard	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I see the puncture, I think,' Ah, today unlucky, I lose the race', i changed the bike really well, really fast, like a Formula One race, and then when I crossed the line I think, ‘ OK, now will win Cavagna, ’ because he’s a really good rider, really good time trial. – Filippo Ganna	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think it's still going to be hard, we need a bit of luck as well for that, but I will give everything. Of course we had some really unlucky results but... they( Ferrari) should have been miles ahead of us over the whole year. – Max Verstappen	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We started the game really compact and aggressive, pressing hard. I think we dominated the game in the first 30 minutes, unlucky that we conceded at the end of the first half, in the last minute. – Mauricio Pochettinos	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I definitely needed a little bit of luck, if you look at how unlucky things were with the incident here a few years ago when I ran the bath, I guess the knee, that part of the body was ready to go. – Australian Open	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I like Fleetwood and I expect him to do something special, i thought he was unlucky at British Open. He succumbed on the third day when the USGA organizers put the pins in stupid places. He shot a 78 while American Brooks Koepka managed a 72 so that was the big difference. – Tony Jacklin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
These kids were just totally unlucky. Wrong place, wrong time, it happened very quick. You can't blame the coach, you can't blame the kids. – Vern Unsworth	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are so unlucky not to go through in 90 minutes, no one laid on the floor and we stood there when it counted. It was a big night for England. – Harry Kane	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The first feeling if I meet them (in competition) is that I'm very unlucky, because it's very difficult to beat them and it feels like the match may be over very quickly, but the Chinese team represents the highest level of competition, one also wants to see how wide the gap is between them and I. After all, you won't always get a chance to exchange blows with such high standards. – Melek Hu	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There was no minister as unlucky as me, there were no other ministries where the minister is in prison, the secretary-general is in prison, the head of the oil and gas regulator is in prison and several members of the (parliament) energy commission are in prison. – Sudirman Said	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think' Star Wars' will be Star Wars ', far more than the last trilogy, social media now dominates, and Star Wars ' is filled with fans, videos, tweets, photos, Vines and more. The Internet was still young when the second trilogy began. Now excitement has built to a fever pitch and whenever the movie comes out, it will smash its opposition like an Imperial Walker crushing an unlucky Ewok. – Dan Gainor	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It certainly seems to be unlucky to attack me. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You can wrap yourself up in cotton wool for the rest of your life if you want but having a little kickaround with your mates, I would have said 999 times out of 1,000 you are good, he got unlucky, it was just one of those situations that's caught him out. It was a freak accident but accidents happen. – Ryder Cup	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was unlucky. I don't even remember how I went down. I touched the rear wheel of the rider in front of me (Coquard) but it's the Tour, luck and bad luck are always close. – Garman Martin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Santa Barbara is probably the single worst location on the planet anybody could choose for an oil spill, since the '69 spill, people have just been waiting to pounce on the oil industry. To have the spill here, this company is profoundly unlucky. – Eric Smith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He was the unlucky guy who happened to be the last one running from the scene, if he was shot in the back, that's unreasonable. If he was shot in the back and didn't have a gun, that's even more unreasonable. – Brendan Shiller	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After they entered the museum. I saw their faces: They were about 10 meters away from me, i managed to hide behind a pillar, there were unlucky people who they killed right there. – Josep Lluis Cusido	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

As unlucky as he is to have such a tragic injury, he is so lucky that the injuries are where they are.

– Christopher Vincent

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was very unlucky, the only thing that I am sure is he is going to win not one — much more than one. So I wish him all the best and a very fast recovery.

– Rafael Nadal

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The court's decision effectively closes the federal courts to many prisoners with extremely serious constitutional ineffective trial counsel claims simply because they were unlucky enough to have incompetent lawyers at every stage of state court proceedings.

– Robert Loeb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think I was creating before, too. I got chances but maybe a little bit unlucky, didn’t bounce my way, if you look at my goal, it hit the (defenseman’s) stick and went five-hole. Luck turned a little bit.

– Andre Burakovsky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even if you count all the distances and judge points from the unlucky ones on today’s competition, we should still be first so it’s still great.

– Peter Prevc

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off, your employment here is terminated, effective immediately.

– Vishal Garg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She did n’t think she ’d catch anything because of the date, but I said not everyone can be that unlucky.

– Hannah Truscott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From what I’ve been told nandrolone is high … pig offal has high concentrations of nandrolone. This food truck that I happened to go to that night – I’ve eaten there a lot before – and this food truck serves pig offal as part of their menu and I think I happened to ingest this hormone and 10 hours later, at the peak of when it’s supposed to be in your body and your digesting it, I happened to get tested and honestly it’s a very unlucky series of events, i’m kinda blown away by what happened and I can't believe I’m going through this as a clean athlete.

– Susan Hazzard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I see the puncture, I think,' Ah, today unlucky, I lose the race', i changed the bike really well, really fast, like a Formula One race, and then when I crossed the line I think, ‘ OK, now will win Cavagna, ’ because he’s a really good rider, really good time trial.

– Filippo Ganna

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's still going to be hard, we need a bit of luck as well for that, but I will give everything. Of course we had some really unlucky results but... they( Ferrari) should have been miles ahead of us over the whole year.

– Max Verstappen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We started the game really compact and aggressive, pressing hard. I think we dominated the game in the first 30 minutes, unlucky that we conceded at the end of the first half, in the last minute.

– Mauricio Pochettinos

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I definitely needed a little bit of luck, if you look at how unlucky things were with the incident here a few years ago when I ran the bath, I guess the knee, that part of the body was ready to go.

– Australian Open

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I like Fleetwood and I expect him to do something special, i thought he was unlucky at British Open. He succumbed on the third day when the USGA organizers put the pins in stupid places. He shot a 78 while American Brooks Koepka managed a 72 so that was the big difference.

– Tony Jacklin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These kids were just totally unlucky. Wrong place, wrong time, it happened very quick. You can't blame the coach, you can't blame the kids.

– Vern Unsworth

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are so unlucky not to go through in 90 minutes, no one laid on the floor and we stood there when it counted. It was a big night for England.

– Harry Kane

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The first feeling if I meet them (in competition) is that I'm very unlucky, because it's very difficult to beat them and it feels like the match may be over very quickly, but the Chinese team represents the highest level of competition, one also wants to see how wide the gap is between them and I. After all, you won't always get a chance to exchange blows with such high standards.

– Melek Hu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There was no minister as unlucky as me, there were no other ministries where the minister is in prison, the secretary-general is in prison, the head of the oil and gas regulator is in prison and several members of the (parliament) energy commission are in prison.

– Sudirman Said

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think' Star Wars' will be Star Wars ', far more than the last trilogy, social media now dominates, and Star Wars ' is filled with fans, videos, tweets, photos, Vines and more. The Internet was still young when the second trilogy began. Now excitement has built to a fever pitch and whenever the movie comes out, it will smash its opposition like an Imperial Walker crushing an unlucky Ewok.

– Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It certainly seems to be unlucky to attack me.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You can wrap yourself up in cotton wool for the rest of your life if you want but having a little kickaround with your mates, I would have said 999 times out of 1,000 you are good, he got unlucky, it was just one of those situations that's caught him out. It was a freak accident but accidents happen.

– Ryder Cup

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was unlucky. I don't even remember how I went down. I touched the rear wheel of the rider in front of me (Coquard) but it's the Tour, luck and bad luck are always close.

– Garman Martin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Santa Barbara is probably the single worst location on the planet anybody could choose for an oil spill, since the '69 spill, people have just been waiting to pounce on the oil industry. To have the spill here, this company is profoundly unlucky.

– Eric Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was the unlucky guy who happened to be the last one running from the scene, if he was shot in the back, that's unreasonable. If he was shot in the back and didn't have a gun, that's even more unreasonable.

– Brendan Shiller

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After they entered the museum. I saw their faces: They were about 10 meters away from me, i managed to hide behind a pillar, there were unlucky people who they killed right there.

– Josep Lluis Cusido

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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