When You're Hot, You're Hot

[Baker, John]

The Yale Book of Quotations cites newspaper reports from 1972 and 1971 for "When you're hot, you're hot" and "When you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not," both described as "Modern Proverbs."  I expect that they both derive from the popular 1971 song by Jerry Reed (aka Jerry Reed Hubbard), titled the former and including the latter in its lyrics.  I don't know if he also wrote the lyrics or not.
 
 
John Baker
 

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