Quotes About Opportunity

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

I was still on the bench at the beginning in Naples, then I started to play and I wanted to enjoy my moments. I worked so hard to get into the team and I didn't want to leave - that would have been too easy.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

I see a lot of myself in a young Mike Vrabel. He is very competitive. He is very respectful of the game, but he looks at each opportunity as an opportunity to prove something that people don't think you can do, and he'll create that narrative.

The narrative in 2020 must speak about gender equality which will only come from empowering the women who've been given the short end of the stick for far too long.

No matter how badly you play, unless you make a flat-out blunder, there's always going to be some narrow path to being able to save the game and draw instead of losing.

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.

A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

I have taken restarts and have come to the conclusion myself that I can't give NASCAR that opportunity to penalize me.

Freshman year of college we got to go on a NASCAR course in Charlotte.

The opportunity at NASCAR will continue to be such that the best talent wants to be here.

My hope is, and I know there are a couple of big manufacturers, and there always are - this is not breaking news - there's always somebody who has an interest in at least understanding the NASCAR opportunity, and so my sense of it is over time that we will have a fourth manufacturer.

I thought I'd go into law or something. I always loved NASCAR, but I didn't view it as a business opportunity.

I love social media. I think people in NASCAR don't use it enough and there's so much you can do with it.

To be a part of NASCAR, to have the name behind me is such a big deal.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.

I was so intimidated being on 'Nashville,' and acting is so much harder than it seems. But I'm always open to any opportunity that someone brings me.

I could put in garage doors or work in McDonald's but that's it. So I figured I might as well play the Nashville game.