Quotes About Opportunity

Unless South Africa is

the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GET MUDDY

It's the doors that make a prison, he says, not the walls. The doors you don't even try to open.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

A stagnant navy," noted one maritime scholar, "was no place for a man on the make.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

When I was a young kid growing up in Mobile, Alabama, I chased a dream and found it and played baseball for 23 years. I see these young kids coming along now and they are chasing their dreams. It just so happens that their dream costs a little bit more than mine did. I'm hoping they catch it and that they're able to do the things they want to do in life.

There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

I think [Colin Kaepernick] is getting a raw deal. I've been watching pro ball a long time, and if you look at all the quarterbacks in the league right now. I think you have to say he is 1-2-3-4 ... I don't think anybody can do the things he can do. I just wish somebody would open up and give him a chance to do this thing and say hey, he's entitled to whatever he did, and let's forget about it. Let's get on with it.

I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Don't waste you youth by growing up !

My new appointment was supposed to be

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Pech ist heute nur noch die Würze des Glücks!