Quotes About Opportunity

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

It doesn't seem very long ago I was a girl from a council estate with nothing but dreams.

I definitely count my blessings. I feel like I've had such a great ride. Early on, to be able to work with some of the people I did, I feel really lucky.

My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.

I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

You only get so many shots in this life, and you gotta make it count.

If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.

At the end, if you are good in your film and you have more films coming your way and good characters to play, nothing else counts.

I never thought I'd be a senior player in a county side, let alone the England side. When you break into a county side, that is your aim, so it's an incredible feeling to have achieved that with England.

It's OK to be a good county cricketer but when you take the step up, you never know how your career might go.

We should ensure that a kid from Nash County can get the same great education as a kid from Wake County.

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Of course, I'd love to do Bollywood.

When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.

I really appreciate the opportunity to play on the All-Star court.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.