Quotes About Opportunity

I am no longer 20 or 21 years old, so I cannot afford to sit around waiting for my chance. I am 29 years old, and I want to play, play, and play. I am not crazy; I don't want to sit in the stands.

I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.

I've actually never done standup before.

Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn't see before.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.