Quotes About Opportunity

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

All sports for all people.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.