Quotes About Opportunity

I'm really focused on Minnesota and Minnesotans, and I will come to Washington, D.C., prepared to be a fierce advocate for Minnesotans, especially around economic opportunity and fairness.

It would have been harder for me to get rookie of the year in Cleveland than it would've been in Minnesota.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

I would really love to go back to college, if there's any way I could to do it, and maybe minor in business.

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

I played right field in Minor Leagues a lot before I started playing centerfield.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.

I've been extremely lucky in that I've been able to play roles that are not defined by their ethnicity. But that's not a common thing for people of ethnic minorities.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.

Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it's even harder for minority and women-led companies.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

I felt like I wasn't considered for minority or Caucasian male lead roles. There aren't really a lot of roles written for me, and I mean me and who I am in real life.