Quotes About Opportunity

I want to prove myself in the Premier League.

It's a dream of mine to play in the Premier League and to make my debut.

Everyone dreams of playing in the top leagues in Europe and the Premier League is obviously up there. Growing up in England, it's always been a dream of mine to play in the Prem.

The big Premier League clubs will only call me if I win a title in Germany.

After starting off with the Indian Premier League, I thought something more can be done for sports.

The Premier League is definitely a big step up but you've got to be ready.

I always believed I was a Premier League player, but in the first few months when I wasn't getting a game I started to doubt whether I was good enough. Everyone kept on telling me: 'Wait for your opportunity and make sure that you take it' - and that's what I did.

It's been crazy. My life has totally changed. One week I was in school, hanging out with my friends and the next, I'm going to the L.A. premiere of one of the year's biggest movies. It's been a crazy experience.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

Anytime the premiere sports channel calls you and says they want to do a movie about you, you're going to say, 'Yes.'

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

Kids from New York usually don't stay in New York anymore: they go to prep schools and all sorts of stuff nowadays. I'm just happy to be one of the guys in our league from New York, to represent.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.

Honestly, I have not done any preparation for 'Khatron ka Khiladi.'

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn't. Odessa gave me that preparation.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

I've played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals - sometimes unluckily knocked out - but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That's been instilled in me since I was a kid.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.