Quotes About Opportunity

We're in a privileged position in sport and, above all, in football. We have a platform.

Here in the U.K., our government is committed to building a society that works for everyone - not just a privileged few. We must do exactly the same abroad.

Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.

I feel very privileged to do what I do.

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.

Top players are privileged in the chess world.

I've had some bad experiences, but I've also been lucky and I just feel so privileged to be able to even make films.

Football is for everyone. It's not for the privileged, it's not for the few, it's not for the elite.

A movie like Mercury' is a once in a generation opportunity for me. It doesn't come easily to a music director and I am privileged to have gotten this opportunity.

I consider myself privileged to play alongside the best in the world.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford hockey pads and a kit, that was out of my reach.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.

I'm fully aware of how lucky I am to do the work I do. I work really, really hard, and there are a lot of privileges and perks that come with the job.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

That's what we play this game for; the opportunity to go win the ultimate prize.

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone's first film - like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.