Quotes About Opportunity

You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

It's a hard sport. You don't come from a rich family wanting to be a boxer. Rich kids get hit in the face, they go home. Poor kids come back. They see boxing as a way out.

It's a miss and make league. As long as you have that confidence to take that last shot, knowing - I'm pretty sure you can't go home and sleep at night knowing you had the opportunity to take that shot and you shied away from it.

I've worked with lots of actors who sit at home for years waiting to get a job, then as soon as they do, they want to go home.

Changing Europe is a big goal. But I think it is at our fingertips.

It is hard as a goalkeeper when we don't have the opportunity to play, we have to keep the faith, keep training well and when the opportunity arrives you have to be ready for it.

Top of my wishlist is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

I always wanted to be going out on loan and playing football and maturing as a goalkeeper.

I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.

The fact I have returned to Arsenal so many times is because they continued to believe I could become their No.1 goalkeeper.

I would prefer to play left-wing, striker or even goalkeeper - any other position - rather than sitting on the bench as a central midfielder.

The best part of a goalkeeper is that when you are the second choice you get to gain a lot of experience by sitting outside and watching.

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

It's like a god-given gift that I've actually been able to go out and sing my songs.

I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

I did not have a godfather.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.

There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.

I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

I treat auditions as if they are gold. I try to make every one count.