Quotes About Opportunity

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

There are lots of things that could be done. We could get more help from the UCI, like forcing Pro-Tour teams to have a women's equivalent.

As a player, you should look at the teams you might want to play for. The city you may want to live in. The system you may want to play in. The economy. The cost of living. Everything. It's about what's best for you.

In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.

I want to play a big role on special teams, too.

I firmly believe in the old adage 'Actions speak louder than words.' This means proactively seeking women for roles within boards, identifying opportunities for diversity within teams, and finding ways to use your platform to mentor women - and then encourage them to do the same.

Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.

China's domestic travel is increasing, and that's why we are building our teams here in China.

If you take a step back and you look at the overall picture, there's a lot of teams in this league that could use a quarterback of Colin Kaepernick's ability.

I've been on record many times in the past about the challenge of being competitive with NBA teams in smaller markets.

There are a lot of young teams that all they are is young. That doesn't mean they have a chance to be good.

Rondo's a great player, and most teams look at it that anytime you have a chance to get a great player, you do it.

As far as what teams need and what I need, I'm open to anything a team has to say about how they envision me in their future.

There was an option to sign for Barcelona and other teams before I moved to Madrid.

Every player wants to play on the biggest stages in football. I have played for big teams. I know what it takes.

I had the chance to go to Manchester United and other teams in the Premier League.

Playing big teams is something I really enjoy - the bigger the team the better.

If you excel, there will always be teams interested in signing the biggest players.

I had the opportunity to play in many fantastic squads. I won with great teams but also lost with great teams.

I want to attack matchups on special teams.