Quotes About Opportunity

I even remember the first contract I ever signed. I was 13 or 14... my dad said, 'It's your choice. It's your life.'

I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.

It was strange joining Chelsea, but when I signed, I knew I would be loaned out to a team. They had, like, a five-year plan for me.

The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.

There would have been no Barcelona, and a lot of other things besides, for me if I hadn't signed for Celtic.

Being on Epic, it wasn't like we got signed to a multi-million-dollar deal.

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.

I was looking to be a part of commercial cinema and that was when I signed 'Jodi.'

Dudes like me, where I'm from with my sound, don't get signed! It ain't like labels in and out of Detroit and it's a guarantee and I got talent that everybody sees.

At 19, I got signed up for commercials, it was easy money.

I had my very first match against NXT Women's Champion Sasha Banks three weeks after I signed. I'm quite proud of that, but I can't explain how nervous I was.

My dad always wanted me to be a cricketer, study no chance. Once he saw that I was quite good for my age, no school. So, as soon as I did my GCSEs, I got signed by Warwickshire at 15.

That's the funny thing - if there was a year and half or two years of us being a band like every other band and then getting signed, we would probably have made 'Pretty. Odd.' as our first album instead.

I chose Interscope because I like the people there and the environment that was there. And the fact that not a lot of people get signed to Interscope.

If I was offered a Salman Khan or a Shah Rukh Khan film, I would have signed it. No one says no to that.

I signed my first publishing deal when I was 14, and it was from two records I put on MySpace.

When I signed with the Rockets, I just kind of felt like that was my calling card.

I wanted to play in the Premier League and Bolton offered me that opportunity at that time and that was why I signed for Bolton.

I don't know if anyone can say, 'oh, I know I'm going to get signed.' You don't know what they're looking for. You might have excelled in-ring but you might not have excelled at promos. It's about giving it 110 percent, and then having NXT want you in their family.

I didn't even know what 'The Voice' was, but my mom said, 'I signed you up for this singing show,' and I was like, 'All right, I guess.'

If you're an outsider, you don't know how to get signed by the WWE. It's not like football where you can sign up and segue your way in. You've got to know somebody.

After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.

I am very pleased to be back in F1 and to have signed to drive for Minardi.