Richard Bradley

The benefits that I gained from that sort of an education were probably not the ones that my parents intended when they shipped me out, but my ability to deal with awful situations and awful people.

And after you've been through the level of hazing and fratting and the hierarchy of these places, there's nowhere in the world that I couldn't go to, and there's nowhere in the world that I couldn't work with.

My mum used to have this saying to me when I would get lucky.

She used to say, Richard, you were born under a star.

And I have been incredibly lucky.

You're talking to me because for whatever reason, that gun didn't shoot me in the guts.

Two inches to the right, and it was in the chest, and it was game over.

And I stand on the shoulders of a lot of people, like those friends of mine that are no longer with us.

You know, I tip my hat to them every day.

I do not forget them.

They ride with me always.

Since this lucky moment, I have tried to honour my good fortune in the husband that I am, the father that I am, the colleague and the mate that I am, and I've endeavoured to not be

as self-centered and as fatalistic as I used to be.

My way of thinking, the karmic sort of way, is that if you honor the previous luck you've had, maybe more of it will keep coming.