Quotes About Opportunity

I've never been in this position where I've had to take an 'X' amount of shots, where I've had to focus on scoring. All of my career has been being a defensive player just running the floor.

I like to space the floor, I think I can give guys opportunity not to get double-teamed.

My expectation for the first year was to work hard, and whenever I get a chance, whenever I get on the floor, to do my best.

I don't look for roles, for they come to me. Mind you, it's not like I'm sitting in the middle of the floor with thousands of scripts around me. When work comes up, it's good. I love it. Work doesn't feel like work.

I want to put myself in the best position to stay out on the floor.

I knew I just gotta wait for my chances in the game and I'm gonna prove what I am able to do when I get on the floor.

I would just go out and play every game and leave it all out on the floor, and I guess I had the talent to get into a great college like UCLA.

At the end of the day, if I can keep playing defense, I'm going to be able to stay on the floor, and obviously that's what everyone wants to do.

The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.

If you have back-to-back flops and you're not a star's son, it depends on your destiny or contacts. People say 'No, I'm not going to take this director/actor, he's given four flops,' they forget the day when the same person was a hit.

It was weird at Fiorentina, because I wouldn't sign a contract and commit, so they played somebody else. But I definitely think it was still a good move and living in Florence was probably one of the best times of my life.

I want everybody in Florida to live the American dream.

As far back as the 1800s, people were moving to Florida to make their dreams come true.

I didn't start my career or, really, my life before I came to Florida.

I like how in little league they have nine kids who play the field but we have 17 kids on the roster and all 17 kids should hit. I like that we do that down here in Florida.

I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education, but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.

Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

I deserve this rematch. I want to thank Floyd Mayweather for giving me this opportunity.

I'm surprised I got the rematch, since Floyd has only done it one other time in his career.

I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.'

Nothing's by fluke and nothing's been given to me.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.