Quotes About Opportunity

At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

Nobody gets to the league and is awful. Some people are more built to be good in this than others, right, but at the end of the day, when people are like, 'Yo, you got great overnight,' I'm like, 'That doesn't really make too much sense.'

I wanted to go overseas and act. I wanted to be an actor in an industry that isn't necessarily the most inclusive for anybody different.

Every place you can find an edge, you should - the free agent market, the undrafted market, the D-League, international players, Americans playing overseas, international players playing in America, the second round. You should be looking for all those opportunities, finding whatever edge you can.

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

Our country has a capacity to cater to huge demands, both domestic and overseas.

Overseas and going straight to the NBA wasn't even an option.

Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.

As late as my junior year, I was taking Italian at Duke because I thought I was going to have to go overseas and play. Then I had a great senior year and became a lottery pick.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

Ring of Honor are really investing time and effort into the women's division and things have been great, especially being able to tour with them across the US, Canada, overseas.

The top 100 guys overseas could play in the NBA, right? But a lot of times, it's about that opportunity, about that fit.

I've being doing some stuff overseas. I got the opportunity to go to New Japan a couple of times.

I learned how to play the game without using my athletic abilities while playing overseas. When I got my NBA opportunity, it enhanced my fundamentals.

If I were to do something here in Australia that did travel overseas, for sure, I would like to work anywhere in the world.

The biggest chance to overtake is in the first two laps of a race. Later on will always be more difficult.

I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.

There are a million ways to loose a workday, but not even a single way to get one back.