Quotes About Opportunity

I know I'm good enough to be a starter and I'm a much more productive player when I get starter minutes. But I don't have to start. That's not me.

Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.

You play the game to compete and you want to be a starter, but at the same time you don't want to rush yourself to be in any situation that could possibly lead you back to where you are today.

It wasn't like I came in and was like, 'I'm going to be a starter.' That was never in my head. It was always about, like, 'I can make sure I come and I'm better and I can handle the ball and I can shoot and I can defend. And, if I can do those things, I will play.'

In the first season with Sarri I only played six games as a starter.

I want to be a starter in this league.

I don't want to be a backup. I want to be a starter.

It doesn't matter if I am going to come off the bench or if I am going to be a starter.

I was not looking for the money. I was looking for the opportunity that I was going to be a starter and play a decent amount of minutes.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money. But that's especially true if you don't have anybody to guide you.

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.

Starting games with the French national team helped me bounce back when it was getting difficult with Arsenal.

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.

Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

Entrepreneurship is not only about starting businesses but is an attitude to life.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.