On google (where you are) “better to be lucky than good” returns 408,000 results, while removing the quotes nets 121 million results. If any person in your life uses this phrase, you have to say it. A recitation would be a good one. What will you say? What do you read about popularity, whether you get Google results or an honest review? As

for its meaning, it can be roughly interpreted as: I

would rather have many good things happen to me by no skill of my own than be very skilled at something and be responsible for my own good fortune, therefore making my successes and failures a direct result of my own actions.

If I could read up on Lefty Gomez as to what the earliest words in this sentence are, of course, about 1943. The very first references would justify the

existence of his famous phrase.”