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Quotes About Opportunity

I've said in earlier interviews maybe I should have stayed one or two more years in Holland.
~ Ryan Babel
Maybe in hindsight the move to Sauber - not to disregard that year - but maybe if I'd stayed at Force India, that could have been a change to my career.
~ Nico Hulkenberg
I have no idea what would have happened to me had I stayed at Motherwell.
~ Paul Lambert
Probably I would have got more money if I'd stayed in Italy. It was said that I took England for the money. Absolutely not. I took it because it's the biggest football job in the world, the finest job you can have. I enjoyed it every day.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
If I had stayed at City I think I would have been someone who simply filled in when I was required. I'd rather go elsewhere and play regularly. Be a bigger part of a smaller team.
~ Micah Richards
My friends went on gap years and I just stayed in London.
~ Georgia Toffolo
Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.
~ Tom Payne
I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17 and three months I went to the Old Vic School in London. This most remarkable and brilliant drama school lasted only six years because the Old Vic Theatre hadn't the money to go on funding it.
~ Prunella Scales
I would have to honestly say that my biggest regret is even starting this sport. I think I would've lived a different life if I would've stayed home in Memphis and worked at the family business. I'd be closer to my family and growing old with them instead of living out at California.
~ Quinton Jackson
I could have stayed at Chelsea, signed a new contract, but I chose to go different ways.
~ Patrick van Aanholt
CNBC really did dominate. Could I have stayed there and continued doing what I was doing? Yes. I had been there for seven years and I was looking for an opportunity to help me grow in immediate terms.
~ Margaret Brennan
It is hard for a young player at Real Madrid, they will always buy in new players and not look at the youths. If I stayed I could have been in the reserves for years.
~ Marcos Alonso
It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.
~ Charles Oliveira
Whatever you feel is right, whether that's moving to a new club or staying to fight for a position, everyone has a right to do what they want to do.
~ Jadon Sancho
Los Angeles has been great to me, and I have a home there, and I'm so lucky I get to do what I do for a living. But I did not go down to Los Angeles really even with the intention of staying.
~ Janet Varney
When they widened the lane to prevent me from staying so close to the basket that just created more opportunity for me to pass the ball around.
~ George Mikan
I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.
~ Kristanna Loken
If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.
~ Ara Parseghian
I was in L.A., like, four months, and I got my first part. Then I was like, 'OK, I'm staying.'
~ Michael Pena
I only ever agreed to appear in 'Corrie' for two months, but I ended up staying a lot longer. I really enjoyed it.
~ Ray Fearon
You can't do the finest work of your career staying in your city.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Staying in China provided me with the opportunity to adjust to life outside of North Korea and to gain a sense of perspective, most importantly, by learning that so much of what I had been taught about my country was a lie.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'
~ Yvonne Orji
It's about staying level-headed and being appreciative of the chances I got and the games I played but, at the same time, wanting more.
~ Joe Gomez