Quotes About Opportunity

I remember when I was in college, my junior year NWSL was not a thing and my senior year, it started up and I had a place to play now. It's really great that it's been able to be stable for these last seven years and we can always continue to push for more growth.

I'm the daughter of immigrants and my parents came to this country with nothing in their pockets and not speaking English and all of us kids were supposed to grow up and just get a stable job that kept us out of trouble. So, that was what I was always aiming for.

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

The biggest auditions can be the most freeing. The odds are always stacked against you and you always expect someone famous to get the part, so it eases the pressure.

I felt like a lot of odds were stacked against me to begin with, be it financial, racial, class, gender.

I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive 'isms.' But once you let go of the blame and excuses, you'll see that you can alter your position on your own.

We have choices in life when we're young and I think a lot of things were stacked against me.

My first U.S. Open main draw, it was a big stadium and I wasn't really used to it.

Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.

It's a dream that we, as women footballers, get to play in the same stadium as the men.

The only thing that Celtic doesn't have is the propaganda, which is the Premier League. In every other aspect of football, Celtic is a huge club: fan base, stadium and history. They have a fantastic history. What it doesn't have is the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

You can sit and imagine what it is like to go into a hostile stadium, or what it's like to play for the AFC championship, but you never know until you do it.

Playing for England, it's a massive honour to wear the shirt anyway, but to come and play at Wembley Stadium, in terms of how women's football has developed, it's a massive opportunity.

After three years in Japan there were some options to play in Europe, but I chose Porto because when I was 15 I went to their stadium once and said to myself, 'One day I will play here.'

I've worked very hard to put myself where I am: in the top 10, the top American in an American event - two American events - and I haven't played on stadium court.

Ultimately, we are doing the same job as the men, but I understand that we're not filling out stadiums.

I am pleased for Poland as a country, that new motorways are being constructed, new businesses, new stadiums.

In Spain, they're doing something right because the attendances keep creeping up, and teams are getting the opportunity to play at the men's stadiums.

I played in Qatar only because I had a great offer and I am not ashamed to accept. We played in empty stadiums! I realised what a mistake I made and decided to leave the club immediately.

Let's build women's football from the bottom before we get to the top; it's not about building from the top to get to the bottom. We can talk about the Etihad and Man United's ground, the Theatre of Dreams, in a few years' time. Let's fill the Academy Stadiums, the Kingsmeadows, first of all.

Of course Labor think it's a choice between schools, hospitals or stadiums - because they were so incompetent they couldn't manage the budget so they never had the opportunity to build like we have.

I'd love to play in Cowboys Stadium or one of those football stadiums.