Quotes About Opportunity

You've got to be able to go out there and do the small things. I went to Villanova, and I didn't start my freshman year until the last two games of the season. And I think that continuously not being 'The Man' helped me as an individual be able to say, 'Listen, what else do you need me to do?'

Getting injured gave me the opportunity to re-examine some small things like my serves.

I'm from a small town. I think that's what's going to help me succeed.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

D.C. is a small town with some big-town features.

It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.

Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself.

I want to thank the NBA and U.S.A. Basketball. Words can't describe my feeling. I was a small town kid from Hamburg, Arkansas, and you provided me a platform to live out my passion, the game of basketball, on the world's grandest stage.

I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life.

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town or big.

When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

I was just 15 years old when I came from Chandigarh, which was a very small town then. I became part of the entertainment field after winning the Young Miss India contest.

I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.

Coming from a small town like Jalpaiguri, whatever I have achieved today is because of my work.

I know how difficult it is to come from a small town and make a name for yourself.

Every step of way, going from a small town to Charlottesville and playing in the ACC - that whole experience is a difficult adjustment. In all of that, you really grow as a person and as a basketball player.

If you choose to work at a larger company over a smaller company, you are more likely to be higher paid.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

A lot of actors get the leading role after doing a bunch of smaller things and people get to know them. I came out of nowhere.