Quotes About Opportunity

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

This is our time. This is our opportunity. Together, we will accomplish great things.

Our time is a time for crossing boundaries.

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

As soon as I heard of Common Goal I knew this was a chance for football to improve our world and I wanted to be part of it.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Yes, the United States deserves criticism for meddling in other elections, but that doesn't mean that we should give foreign nationals the opportunity to meddle in ours.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.

Ours is a great nation, built upon both free enterprise and the free exercise of basic democratic rights.

We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.

Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

There's a lot of rhetoric out here, a lot of talk about giving young people opportunity. Just looking so deeply into the RFK Children's Action Corps, I can see that they are really, really living that mandate.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.

For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I thought, 'Great, I'll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I'll do something else.'

My plan is to stay in New York for as long as I can and do some theater out here and just keep working creatively.

On the court, I get the opportunity to just open up all my feelings, everything that's wrong, everything I struggle with, I get to come out here and forget about it and get it out.

I didn't think I'd be playing football at 31 so it's a blessing just to be able to come out here and compete.

Ive been an opening act for pretty much as long as Ive been out here doing this, so to be able to go out and be a headliner is an adjustment for me.