Quotes About Opportunity

There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.

That's what independent filmmaking does: it gives the underdog a voice, a shot.

I liked coaching in an underdog situation.

I just try to fight for the underdog, and try to fight for those who are locked out of the sunshine of opportunity.

And I get asked all the time about my career, growing up as an athlete, as kind of an underdog type of player. I thought, what better to get your message out than to do a book?

If you embrace it, I think being an underdog becomes more of an advantage than anything.

A mega fight to me is a fight that I am in and people think I am going to lose. I am the underdog. Golovkin, it's a perfect fight. It's a hard fight, but a fight that I think I have a fantastic chance of beating him. He's not the biggest middleweight, so if he moves up in weight, I am going to have the size advantage.

I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that's Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Luck is a factor that a lot of people underestimate.

Players can underestimate the Premier League.

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work.

Do not underestimate me. I believe that as a woman, a progressive, and a Minnesotan, I have a lot to contribute and I am so ready to do that work.

When I was asked to write a concept for a telenovela, I didn't underestimate my non-experience in the field.

When I debuted at NXT, I was naive, and look where it got me. I was overlooked and underestimated.

I would say that engineering has been a very positive experience overall, but usually coming into the situation it would be one of being underestimated. People would actually have low expectations. But I would take advantage of it quite honestly, because I would take my time to underestimate the situation.

I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.

I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.

I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.

I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Personally, I chose my own undergraduate institution in large part because the scholarship options made it affordable for me to attend. Make no mistake: The financial feasibility of each school's cost was a major part of making my decision, as it was for almost everyone I knew.

Because of engineering, I have been able to experience things I never thought I would be able to do as an undergraduate.