Quotes About Opportunity

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.