Quotes About Opportunity

We're all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I've just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, 'Hey, that will be me.' They're going to chase after it like I did. And they're going to be the next one.

I think a lot of winning a Super Bowl is being at the right place at the right time. It's sacrifice, it's making team plays and being an impactful player is part of it.

I think it would be a great honor to get another Super Bowl, but not just limited to that. Other events, sporting or otherwise, I think New Jersey has an enormous opportunity given our location and our natural resources, our passion generally and specifically for sports, I think we're a natural.

Obviously, if you go to the playoffs you have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.

I just want to exhaust every opportunity to play and obviously try to play in a game like this - the Super Bowl.

I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or '61. I just regret we didn't get the chance to prove it.

I was pretty darn lucky to be selected by the Steelers. A round earlier or later in the draft and I might have been with a team that didn't make it to the Super Bowl.

I get to go to the Super Bowl.

I've worked with Gemma Jones before, so the opportunity to re-connect with her, and for us to play mother and daughter, was superb.

Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

The brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Love at first has nothing to do with unfolding, abandon and uniting with another person (for what would be the sense in a union of what is unrefined and unfinished, still second order?); for the individual it is a grand opportunity to mature, to become something in himself, to become a world, to become a world in himself for another's sake; it is a great immoderate demand made upon the self, something that singles him out and summons him to vast designs.

Everything assigned to us is a challenge; nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

You are not too old And it is not too late . . .

The hour bows down and stirs me with a clear and ringing stroke; my senses tremble. I feel that I can-- and seize the forming day.

the Raj could also dangle jobs before the educated unemployed, councils before the ambitious, and titles before the rich and the vain.

Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

collectivity of politically astute citizens who, by virtue of our vaunted system of universal education and our freedom of opportunity, would be prepared to govern.

Education Is All A Matter Of Building Bridges

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.