Quotes About Opportunity

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

L.A. gives me a lot. L.A. is a city of extremes. People come here from all over the world that have these, like, giant ideas, and they put everything into it. And some people just fall flat on their face, and some people, you know, shoot like a rocket.

I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

In the game, you've got some people who've got money, but their music is kind of off, their music is garbage. Then, you have people with good music, but they ain't got the biggest part: They ain't got the funds. But me, I'm just all the way around the board.

I will be honest, and I have no shame in saying that after 'Kai Po Che!', I did not get chances. Some people didn't understand what to give me, and some people went out of the way to not give me work.

Love is love, and a lot of times, people might be in the situation they're in because they put barriers up. Like, some people only want to date a model or an actor or an athlete. You're only limiting yourself. Open up to what's out there because God made us all.

There are some things that are exciting for distributors. I love Apple's AppStore and the things people can do with digital distribution.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

Sometimes you go through some things to find the right situation.

You know, some things you can't change, but you can start from the youth to change the future.

Some things you can never get back.

I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

I came to the realization that I can also satisfy my creative side by giving somebody else a chance. I don't have to be in front of the camera for every project.

Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

Education is about women and girls. It is important for girls to go to school because they will become their children's first teachers someday.

My dream is to go big someday internationally.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.