Quotes About Opportunity

I would never have looked at cycling as something I could do had I not got ill and lived in Manchester where British Cycling is.

Well, you can't say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It's a very international cosmopolitan community. That's very helpful.

I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

We don't just want to eradicate illness. We want people to achieve their full potential.

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.

I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

I've done every imaginable job possible out there - movies, TV, animation, TV movies... and, at this point, almost reality, it seems. It's been a real blessing. It's been a great ride.

The most basic excitement was the opportunity to work with Dave Cockrum. He was an artist I'd admired for years and our imaginations were ridiculously simpatico.

You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole life - can you imagine what that means for a person?

I'm doing things I had never imagined... and am working with people I had only seen on news and films... I think I am doing well.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'

So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

As a kid, I would never have imagined I would live in England for four years. I am very happy and contented that my daughter is growing up in a country as developed as this one.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

I had never imagined I will come into pageants, because all this happened accidentally in my life, when I was just 17-years-old.

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five but mum lied about my age to get me out of the house.

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.