Quotes About Opportunity

I've been playing in L.A. for a long time through college and pros, just to be ready. It's different out here.

A lot of my friends who were bigger than me at school got into academies at professional clubs but none are pros now. And none of them has put on an England shirt.

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It's something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don't want to let myself down.

I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.

Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

Rodney Linares really stuck his neck out in Greenville to play me, because they had their prospects, guys who they had invested money in.

The last thing I wanted to do was get buried in Triple-A behind prospects.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

Well, there are more job prospects after 'Love Island'.

People are always asking if I was mad at Houston. Honestly, I'm not. The truth of the matter is that when I was there, I didn't perform and they actually did me a favor by cutting me loose. They could have really held me there, not let me leave, bury me in Triple-A, put me behind some prospects and I would never even play.

I am confident the SCMP and Hong Kong will continue to grow and prosper, hand in hand, in this 21st century of opportunity.

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

Conservatives want to see every Canadian prosper.

We can be a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.