Mission controllers made no secret that, for all their expertise and preparation, luck had its part to play.
Mr. Kosinski, now 61, paints and attends a monthly support group, where he ascribes his odds-defying survival to luck and medical expertise, rather than personal will.
Good fortune has played a part in their injury record and made it easy for Ranieri to pick the same team, yet pinning everything on luck overlooks the expertise and technology within the medical and sports science departments at Leicester, where Dave Rennie, the head physio, and Reeves leave no stone unturned.
His confession is poignant; this skilled surgeon appreciates that the element of luck transcends his expertise and experience.
I am unaware of any peer-reviewed data indicating this is an expertise that exists, once you exclude luck as a factor.
The success of Roger Federer or LeBron James comes almost exclusively from aptitude, hard work, skill, and expertise, with only an infinitesimal amount of luck involved.
But if they are looking to make big money in collectibles, they can expect to need a lot of capital, tenacity and expertise--or else an exceptional amount of luck.
He himself has understood that besides luck, character and circumstances, successful business requires expertise and cool calculation.
In 1996, his luck (and it was "luck" and not "expertise") changed.
That's a big stroke of luck, since France has a lot more expertise than, say, nearby Madagascar.
