Quotes About Opportunity

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, 'A daytime soap? It'll kill your career!' Now they'd trade places with me in a heartbeat.

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.

We've made our living for a long time on commerce and trade at the border.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Getting traded to Edmonton was fine with me at the time. At the end of the day, though, you just try to do what's best for you and your family.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

When I found out that I'd been traded to Brooklyn - it was pretty much the best feeling in the world.

One thing I know in baseball is you should never be comfortable where you are. It doesn't matter who you are. It's a business. If I got traded tomorrow, no hard feelings; it's a business.

Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

I mean, if you're going to get traded, you're always looking for a good team to play with.

I don't want to prove the Raiders wrong. I just want to prove the Cowboys right. They traded for me, and I'm going to be a good player for them.

I look at it like this, this is what keeps me going: You see a lot of guys who are being traded and they get waived once they get to the team. That's never happened in my career. So once I've gotten traded, I've been able to sustain a role. I've been wanted.

I almost got traded my rookie year or my second year in the league.

It would have been a short career if I had not been traded to Boston. I was rejuvenated in Boston.

You know, my first nine years I only played for two teams, Chicago and New York. And the only reason I got traded from New York was the 2010 free agency period, when they had a chance to sign LeBron and D-Wade and that whole class, and I understood that. But from there it's kind of been a roller coaster.

There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year.

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

When you have a coaching change, when you have trades, an injury, when you have all these things happening - these are all things that are out of your control. Quickly, you start to understand that, really, the only thing you can control is going out and playing hard every night and being ready for your opportunity.

I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.

We generate a ludicrous amount of trades in $1 to $5 stocks. Because we're free, we're the only place where you can day trade stuff like that.