A New York couple has won the state lottery for the second time in 11 years, twice beating odds of more than 22 million to 1 against.

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"It's a great feeling," said Eugene Angelo Sr., 81, after learning that he and his wife Adeline, 74, had the sole $5 million winner i the twice-weekly Lotto game.

They also won the lottery for $2.5 million in December 1996, the New York Post reported Friday.

"We're a little older, a little wiser, and there are a few more of us when you count the grandkids," Angelo, a retired construction worker who moved out of the Bronx after winning the lottery the first time, told the Post. "But we're still the same old people. Still very excited."

His son, Eugene Jr., said his father has spent $42 a week on lottery tickets since the state lottery began nearly 30 years ago.

The chances of winning once are 22 million to 1, which makes the odds of doing it two times "galactically astronomical," New York Lottery spokesman John Charlson told the newspaper.