Quotes About Opportunity

A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench.

In Germany I am learning everything I need to be a professional.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Not everyone wants to go to school. Some guys might be blessed with being 6'10 and running and jumping better than anybody, so they want to be a professional athlete. There's nothing wrong with that.

When you're successful, a professional athlete, you can help a lot of others.

That's why you went to school, because you realize that, being a professional athlete, there's a good chance you're not going to make it. You need an education, that's why for me, it was such an important decision to go to college and further my education to provide me a safety net in case this didn't work out.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete and really did not necessarily care which sport.

When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college.

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

I have a lot to thank Italy for. It's the country that opened the door to professional football for me.

I got my first taste of real professional football on loan at Northampton. I was 18 at the time, and I played only nine games, but it was a massive opportunity for me.

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

I know there are many things California can offer - personally, professionally, meteorologically - that New York can't. It sounds awesome.

I had an opportunity to go overseas and play professionally, but in the final game of my senior season, I blew my knee out.

David Hayman gave me my Equity card and my first job out of drama school - the first person I really looked up to professionally.

You work on a show like 'All My Children' - we know what it is, but you're still able to grow outside of it. It's the perfect situation. I learned. I grew as an actor. I worked with professionals. I got paid.

Young professionals shouldn't have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.