Quotes About Opportunity

I've always felt that I shot the ball well from distance, but it's just having the opportunity to finally do so. It's great and I'm trying to take advantage of it.

In life, you have to take advantage of what you've been given.

With Strikeforce, we didn't have the capitalization to take advantage of our initial success.

If I get a chance to make a play on the ball, I take advantage of it.

There aren't many people that can say that they went up against their brother and do it multiple times. Any time I get to I try to take advantage of it. I guess by trying to dunk on him.

We have to take advantage of the platform we have while we have it.

Every opportunity I get, I just try to take advantage of it, embrace it and take everything in.

I'm basically going out there every week and trying to take advantage of my chances.

I have to work and give everything and when I'm given minutes I have to take advantage of them, as I have always done.

Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

I wanted to be in the situation where I could have a chance to go to the NFL and be a great quarterback and take care of my family.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

I've been a Republican since age 13, when we got our first television set, and I saw the Republican National Convention on television. And President Eisenhower was talking about personal responsibility, about opening the door for opportunity and that people could really take care of themselves without a lot of government intrusions.

When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

For me, the opportunity to express myself in this way is something I don't take for granted.

That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

When you are growing up to even be involved in a Scotland squad is a massive achievement, to go on and play for your country is an amazing thing, something I will never take for granted.

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the course of my life.