'Let me tell you about luck, my luck was born through effort and I know the same goes for anyone who has been successful in any endeavor.'
Absolutely – you make your own luck in life. The way people lazily ascribe virtually any kind of success to 'luck' drives me crazy! True, successful people are often very lucky in certain ways (e.g. Tiger Woods having a keen golfer father to coach him), but whatever luck they may have is almost always augmented by a ferocious work ethic.